New ‘cobot’ robots kill some jobs, create others

New ‘cobot’ robots kill some jobs, create others

Technology is often blamed for replacing humans in the job market, but when Shelley Fellows looks at a collaborative robot — a cobot — she sees the result of highly paid, highly skilled labour.

“I see the mechanical designer who designed the tooling at the end of that robot arm,” said Fellows, vice-president of communications at Windsor, Ont.-based AIS Technology Group, which specializes in automation technology.

“I see the workers who fabricated that tooling. I see the electrical designer and the engineers who designed the electrical system and the circuitry. I see the programmers who programmed the controls. I see the […]

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