A warning from Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Stephen Hawking
By: Quincy Larson February 19, 2017 “The automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.” — Stephen Hawking There’s a rising chorus of concern about […]
This company replaced 90% of its workforce with machines. Here’s what happened
By: June Javelosa, Kristin Houser February 15, 2017 The rise of the robot workforce It’s hard to argue against automation when statistics are clearly illustrating its potential. The latest evidence comes out of a Chinese factory in Dongguan City. The factory recently replaced 90 percent of its human workforce with machines, and it led to […]
South Korea: World’s first giant manned robot takes its first steps
By: Ruptly December 29, 2016 Watch Full Video
UN Report: Robots Will Replace Two-Thirds of All Workers in the Developing World
By: Eleazer Corpuz November 11, 2016 From recent reports, it may seem like automation only affects those in developed countries; however, a report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development recently noted the ways in which automation impacts those in developing countries—and it seems that it impacts these nations even more than the industrialized […]
Robots and Industrialization in Developing Countries
By: UNICTAD OCTOBER 2016 Industrialization has historically been synonymous with development, while deindustrialization is a well-established trend in mature developed economies as they move towards services-based economies. Yet recent trends show that many developing countries – especially in Africa and Latin America – have witnessed their shares of manufacturing employment and output shrinking long before […]
PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
By: Executive Office of the PresidentNational Science and Technology CouncilCommittee on Technology October 2016 Dear colleagues: Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have opened up new markets and new opportunities for progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy,and the environment. In recent years, machines have surpassed humans in the performance of certain specific […]
Robots will eliminate 6% of all US jobs by 2021, report says
By: Olivia Solon September 14, 2016 By 2021, robots will have eliminated 6% of all jobs in the US, starting with customer service representatives and eventually truck and taxi drivers. That’s just one cheery takeaway from a report released by market research company Forrester this week. These robots, or intelligent agents, represent a set of […]
This humanoid robot’s artificial muscles work the same as human muscles.
By: Interesting Engineering July 4, 2016 Watch Full Video
3 of the world’s 10 largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots
By: Oscar Williams-Grut June 09, 2016 There is no need to worry about whether robots might start taking our jobs. It’s already happening. Three of the world’s 10 largest employers are already replacing tens of thousands of their workers with robots: Foxconn, a key manufacturing partner for Apple, Google, and Amazon, is the world’s 10th […]