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Innovation Nation: Automation is changing how we work – for the better

Innovation Nation: Automation is changing how we work - for the better

This is the fourth edition in an eight-week series, made possible by MYOB, looking at how technology is changing the way New Zealand businesses operate.

While automation started off as machines handling simple tasks such as washing clothes and dishes, it now covers much more advanced work like picking fruit and driving cars.

In other words, automation is pushing into areas that were once the domain of human workers, and the reason for that is a never ending demand for increased business efficiencies and at times, the inability to find people to do the work.Automation is an accelerating global megatrend […]

Call $15 minimum wage what it is: the robot full employment act

Call $15 minimum wage what it is: the robot full employment act

The Cloud Pepper robot, which can speak multiple languages, appears at a tech conference in Barcelona on Monday. (Getty Images) Thirty-plus years ago, I became (nerd alert) fascinated with economics and read up on libertarian-conservatives like Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell and liberals like John Kenneth Galbraith and Paul Samuelson. It was captivating to see how they marshaled seemingly powerful evidence for and against policy proposals, only starting with whether heavy government spending could spur growth of the economy. I would read academics on one side and think of course they’re right, then read the other side and reach […]

2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment

2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment

U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach of businesses of all sizes and in more corners of the economy beyond their traditional foothold in car plants.

Shipments hit 28,478, nearly 16 percent more than in 2017, according to data seen by Reuters that was set for release on Thursday by the Association for Advancing Automation, an industry group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Shipments increased in every sector the group tracks, except automotive, where carmakers cut back after finishing a major round of tooling up for new truck […]

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

Rethinking the job paradigm: Need increased focus on developing ‘mass services’ as driver of growth

As we enter the fourth industrial revolution, we have to necessarily ‘reboot’ our models if we have to deliver jobs with growth

Since the industrial revolution in the mid 19th century, countries have followed the twin strategies of manufacturing growth and merchandise exports to create millions of new jobs. (Representational photo) Jobs has become the ‘hottest’ political battle as the Lok Sabha elections approaches, as media reports on jobs data from the NSSO survey, and earlier in 2017 from the labour ministry survey of establishments, point towards job-less growth. While the government has raised questions on the accuracy of […]

Market Size : Cyber-Physical System Market Globally Grow at a CAGR of 8.7% by 2028

ResearchMoz presents professional and in-depth study of “Cyber-Physical System Market: Will China be Able to Surpass Western Europe in Terms of Growth in the Coming Years: Global Industry Analysis (2013 – 2017) & Opportunity Assessment (2018 – 2028)”.

The global cyber-physical system market is expected to witness a CAGR of 8.7% during the period 2018 – 2028. The market was worth US$ 55,075.3 Mn in 2017 and is likely to reach a valuation of US$ 137,566.0 Mn by the end of 2028.

Get PDF for more Professional and Technical insights @ https://www.researchmoz.us/enquiry.php?type=S&repid=1869363 Technological progressions have led to a conversion […]

Yes, automation can destroy jobs… but it can also create them

Yes, automation can destroy jobs... but it can also create them

Technological change is key to improved productivity, which is desperately needed in Northern Ireland In recent years, we have become accustomed to seeing doomsday headlines predicting the rise of the robots and the end of work as we know it.

It sounds like the premise of a low-budget science fiction movie, but for many, the forward march of technology is a very worrying prospect.

The first thing to be said is that the current climate of concern surrounding automation technologies and robots is nothing new.Since the dawn of the industrial revolution, technological advancements have been introduced into the production process in […]

Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots

Minimum Wage Boosts Are Great—For Robots

In recent weeks, Illinois mandated a huge increase in the state minimum wage, Pennsylvania’s governor proposed to double his state’s minimum wage, and New Mexico lawmakers moved forward with a plan to raise the minimum wage there, too. Hiking the cost of labor is a popular cause once again—even among people who’ve demonstrated in the past that they know perfectly well this is a recipe for limiting opportunity and trapping people in poverty.

It’s tempting to say that people are actually getting stupider about economics. But maybe, instead, it’s all part of a conspiracy by robots who are poised to […]

Are Robots Competing for Your Job?

Are Robots Competing for Your Job?

Doomsayers insist that this time the employment apocalypse is really nigh. The robots are coming. Hide the WD-40. Lock up your nine-volt batteries. Build a booby trap out of giant magnets; dig a moat as deep as a grave. “Ever since a study by the University of Oxford predicted that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence over the next fifteen to twenty years, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the future of work,” Andrés Oppenheimer writes, in “The Robots Are Coming: The Future of Jobs in the […]

Maritime automation will not spare seafarers

Maritime automation will not spare seafarers

Humans have a tenuous relationship with automation. On balance, we love it. It has made our lives easier. Freed up time for leisure. Freed up time for thinking … about more automation. Progressively, we have made automation cleverer. First, we armed it with simple decision trees, then with supervised reasoning, until we arrived at self-learning mathematical algorithms. Along the way, automation equipped with artificial intelligence allowed us to eliminate human efforts all around.

To put it in perspective, we started with replacing elevator operators with buttons and self-locking doors. We arrived at autonomous cars making better driving decisions than humans […]

Ready to work with a smart robot? Some Dayton workers already are

Ready to work with a smart robot? Some Dayton workers already are

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and automation presents threats — and opportunities — for workers and businesses in the Miami Valley.

More than 31,600 people in the Dayton metro area work in the five largest occupations at high risk of automation, according to data the Brookings Institution prepared exclusively for the Dayton Daily News. Those jobs include food preparation, waiters, stock clerks, tractor-trailer truck drivers and accounting clerks.

But about 34,600 people in the region that includes Montgomery, Greene and Miami counties work in the largest low-risk occupations. Those include registered nurses, freight and stock movers, janitors, customer service representatives […]