Automation spurred by skilled worker shortage, business experts say

By RILEY MURDOCK
Capital News Service

LANSING — “I just bought a million-dollar robot, and it’s replacing 32 people and it never calls in sick.”
This is what a Michigan business owner recently told Rob Fowler, president and CEO of the Small Business Association of Michigan.As technology improves by leaps and bounds, automation is increasingly replacing human labor to make things in Michigan. The implications of automation are enormous, even changing the nature and definition of “work.”“It’s sort of moving from making stuff with our hands to running machinery and equipment that makes stuff, to managing and repairing and […]

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