Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Next gen | Levitt Bernstein

Next gen | Levitt Bernstein

Georgia Green, left, and Jessica Rees Change is coming, driven by the influx of Millennials and Gen Z transforming the way we think and work. PlaceTech spoke to a handful of future decision-makers on their ideas for change and how they see their roles developing.

The first in the series features Jessica Rees and Georgia Green, both architectural assistants at architect Levitt Bernstein’s Manchester office. What tasks are going to be part of your job in the future?

As architectural assistants, we are both at the beginning of our careers. We have gone through our education at […]

Technology Needs To Boost Productivity To Help Workers

Technology Needs To Boost Productivity To Help Workers

In a recent article I explored whether investing in technology is inevitably going to harm the employment prospects of workers. The article revolved around the fact that employment often rests upon productivity, and that not investing in technology is a sure fire way to harm productivity, which will then harm our employment prospects.

It’s a notion that has a lot of merit, but a recent paper reminds us, not all investments in technology are liable to have the same impact. The authors argue that the benefits highlighted in my previous article do undoubtedly arrive when the technology we’re investing in […]

Short-staffed at factory? Japanese-Israeli venture offers robots for hire

Short-staffed at factory? Japanese-Israeli venture offers robots for hire

Illustrative image of robots working with carton boxes on a conveyor belt (PhonlamaiPhoto; iStock by Getty Images) An Israeli-Japanese joint venture is offering robots for hire by manufacturing industries, creating what it says is “the world’s first employment agency for robots.”

MusashiAI is a joint venture set up by Israel’s SixAI Ltd., the firm of Israeli tech entrepreneur Ran Poliakine , the maker of the Powermat wireless charging solution , and Japan’s Musashi Seimitsu, an affiliate company of the giant Honda Motor Corporation.

The joint venture was set up earlier this year to develop artificial intelligence technologies to form the […]

Embracing Industrie 4.0 and the ongoing need to digitise

Embracing Industrie 4.0 and the ongoing need to digitise

Industrie 4.0 Fact: The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industrie 4.0) is not coming to mining in Africa – it’s already here – and in 2019 it became a top priority.

As an industry that is steeped in tradition, embracing the digital era has been met with a resistance to change. However, here are just a few reasons why those who started embracing Industrie 4.0 in 2019 will benefit:

Makes underground operations profitable There can be no arguing that the high costs involved in going deeper to find good grade ore bodies has forced many underground operations to shut shop, particularly […]

Minimum ‘human quotas‘ needed to protect jobs from robots

The rise of the robots may force ministers to introduce human worker quotas, leading legal experts warn

Greater protections are needed to stop robots stealing your job, according to a renowned organisation of international lawyers.

Legal experts are concerned that the pace of developments in artificial intelligence are outstripping the ability of global governments to make laws to deal with the consequences.And they are worried that this is leading to is gap between current legislation and new laws – including ‘human job quotas‘ – that they feel are necessary to protect people from being replaced by machines.Scroll down for videoThe International […]

Six jobs eliminated for every robot in the workforce

Six jobs are eliminated for EVERY robot introduced into the workforce, new report reveals

People have been losing jobs to robots since the 1990‘s, a new report has revealed.

When one or more robots was introduced into the workforce between 1990 and 2007, it led to the elimination of an average of six jobs.During those years, robots accounted for the loss of about 670,000 manufacturing jobs, and this is expected to rise in the coming years as robots continue to take over tasks previously performed by people.Scroll down for videoThe , published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, estimated that […]

Industrial Automation Control Market Landscape Assessment By Sort, Opportunities And Better Growth Rate By 2027

Industrial Automation Control Market Landscape Assessment By Sort, Opportunities And Better Growth Rate By 2027

The global industrial automation control market accounted to US$ 158.5 Bn in 2018 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 8.0% during the forecast period 2019 – 2027, to account to US$ 324.6 Bn by 2027.

Europe is anticipated to be the highest revenue contributor in the industrial automation control market for the current year as well as throughout the forecast period. Developed markets including China, US and Japan has higher penetration however, there is still a lot of opportunity available for the industrial market to grow further even in the developed markets. The prospective for […]

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Trends 2020

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) Trends 2020

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) market is evolving at a tremendous pace and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.3% between 2019 and 2025. This growth can be majorly attributed to how RPA streamlines and enhances legacy processes and results in high returns on investment (ROI).

Neelesh Kripalani, Sr. VP and Head Center of Excellence (CoE) of Clover Infotech, looks at the Top 5 trends to watch out in the year ahead… RPA will emerge as a complementary technology

The key benefit of RPA is that it plays well with other existing technologies. RPA has the potential to […]

Trends 2020: Five Robotic Process Automation (RPA) predictions for the coming year

Trends 2020: Five Robotic Process Automation (RPA) predictions for the coming year

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) market is evolving at a tremendous pace and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 20.3% between 2019 and 2025. This growth can be majorly attributed to how RPA streamlines and enhances legacy processes and results in high returns on investment (ROI). Some of the key Robotic Process Automation trends to watch out for in 2020

RPA will emerge as a complementary technology : The key benefit of RPA is that it plays well with other existing technologies. RPA has the potential to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and learn accordingly, hence it enhances […]

Hate to Break It to Steve Mnuchin, But AI’s Already Taking Jobs

Today, in 2017, the president’s top economic advisor said he had no worries about robots putting people out of work. “In terms of artificial intelligence taking over the jobs, I think we’re so far away from that that it’s not even on my radar screen,” Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin told an audience in Washington. “I think it’s 50 or 100 more years.”

Great! That’s a relief! President Trump can go back to horsing around on his big rig confident in the knowledge self-driving trucks won’t replace millions of drivers in a few years.

Except Mnuchin’s wrong. Like super-wrong. Artificial intelligence is […]