Robots Are Going To Kill Jobs Because They Already Have
By: Ben Schiller March 31, 2017 Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says automation isn’t something he loses sleep over: “It’s not even on our radar screen . . . [it’s] 50 to 100 more years” away, as he said at an event organized by Axios. “I’m not worried at all,” he added. “In fact I’m optimistic.” […]
Nation Expected to Lose 30% of Jobs to Automation in 15 Years
By: Christianna Reedy March 29, 2017 The Robot Revolution Whether we like it or not, robots are making an impact in the job market. Experts predict that almost a million jobs will be replaced by robots in 2030, while companies like apple are justifying such predictions. This may also be a boon to governments that […]
Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
By: Claire Cain Miller March 28, 2017 Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner: the robots. The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, […]
Automation is Taking Over One of the Most Popular Professions
By: Scott Santens March 2, 2017 Late last year, I took a road trip with my partner from our home in New Orleans, Louisiana to Orlando, Florida and as we drove by town after town, we got to talking about the potential effects self-driving vehicle technology would have not only on truckers themselves, but on […]
Learning to Love Our Robot Co-Workers
By: Kim Tingley Feb 23, 2017 The robots were Joe McGillivray’s idea. The first one arrived at Dynamic Group in Ramsey, Minn., by pickup truck in two cardboard boxes. With a mixture of excitement and trepidation, McGillivray watched as a vendor unpacked two silver tubes, assorted blue-and-gray joints and a touch screen and put them […]
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 […]