Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Globalisation, robotics and pathways to development

Globalisation, robotics and pathways to development

Trade for Development News discussed the future of globalisation and pathways to development with Richard Baldwin, Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and Director of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. In his latest book, The Globotics Upheaval , Baldwin predicts a future globalisation shaped by digitally fuelled innovations in robotics and artificial intelligence that will be very different from the present and the past. This future raises important questions around prospects for least developed countries in a dizzying era of global disruption.

TfD: Before peering into the future, let us first take a quick step […]

Automation: Is it as Bad for Jobs as it Seems?

Automation: Is it as Bad for Jobs as it Seems?

With the power of artificial intelligence (AI) being harnessed by countless companies to automate processes, there has been a lot of talk about the job losses that could occur across industries.

While new technologies will replace manual work (think manufacturing jobs) is the future of work really as bleak as some critics claim?

As AI evolves, some believe that it will steadily and inevitably take over large sectors of the workforce, bringing mass unemployment and social unrest.Some roles are at particularly high risk of automation, particularly ones in data keeping (e.g. record clerks, office assistants), low-level customer interaction (e.g. hotel/travel […]

Cobots the new lab assistants

Cobots the new lab assistants

Sriram RD , Managing Director, AuroLab and Pradeep David , General Manager, South Asia, Universal Robots in conversation with Prathiba Raju elucidate on how automation via cobots is reshaping the medical devices and diagnostic industry

Why is it necessary for the Indian medical devices and diagnostics industry to be automated?

Sriram RD: There is a lot of work in the medical industry that needs to be automated like packaging and other activities of the same kind. Pharma industry is considered as the sector which is established in a better way and several machines remain fully automated. There is […]

Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

Why Worker Training Programs Alone Won’t Save Coal Country

Participants in a West Virginia worker training program offered by Coalfield Development Corporation. Bobby Bowman mined coal in West Virginia for 12 years before his employer shut down.

“I don’t think that mine will ever open again,” he said.

Bowman lives in Welch, in the south of the state, where he worked at the Pinnacle Mine, which shut down almost exactly one year ago, putting him and about 400 others out of work. After waiting a month in hopes someone would buy Pinnacle and the mine would reopen, Bowman decided to do a four-week training program offered by the United Mine […]

Making the move to mobile robots

Making the move to mobile robots

Automated guided vehicles (AGVs) have been an industry staple since 1953. However, their reliance on environmental markers and the fact they follow a pre-determined route, means AGVs are best suited to working in structured environments in the absence of humans. Here Jonathan Wilkins, director at automation equipment supplier EU Automation , discusses the rise of mobile robots and what challenges need to be overcome for their widespread uptake.

AGVs were the original mobile robot technology but advances in both machine vision and navigation means that more and more businesses are instead turning to autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). According to Research […]

African American Men To Be Hit The Hardest As Automation Takes Over Jobs Humans Once Performed

African American Men To Be Hit The Hardest As Automation Takes Over Jobs Humans Once Performed

African-American Men To Be Hit The Hardest As Automation Takes Over Jobs Humans Once Performed

As robotics and automation become even more popular, a new report claims that African-American men will suffer the most in the future when it comes to employment.

The “Future of work in Black America” report, conducted by Mckinsey & Co., discusses the issues Americans in the workforce will experience as automation replaces blue-collar positions. Interestingly enough, if the report is correct, Black men could get negatively impacted more than other demographics.This is because African-American men are said to be overrepresented in jobs that have high […]

Broward is projected as a top place for black workers, McKinsey says

Downtown Fort Lauderdale, long overlooked, is experiencing a startling resurgence as new high-rise residential projects spring up. A construction crane marks the spot where the 100 Las Olas hotel and condo tower, which will be Broward County’s tallest building, is under construction. CARL JUSTE cjuste@miamiherald.com

Broward’s black population is booming .

So it makes sense that the county is now home to one of the country’s best labor markets for African Americans, according to a new report from consulting giant McKinsey .Broward ranked eighth among areas with the most projected net job growth for African Americans, with a forecast of more […]

The future feeling economy: “If humans want jobs, they better get good at feeling”

The future feeling economy: “If humans want jobs, they better get good at feeling”

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) means that future in-demand skills will be decreasingly technical and increasingly emotive, creating a “feeling economy”, according to research.

In a paper published today in the journal California Management Review , an international team of researchers from the University of Maryland and National Taiwan University reviewed ten years of data on millions of US workers from the US Department of Labor.

They identified a significant shift between 2006 to 2016 towards tasks that required greater emotional intelligence, a move they attribute to increasing automation of more technical and repetitive tasks.They predict that as AI becomes […]

Industrial Automation And Robotics Pdf

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Why automation needn’t threaten us

Why automation needn't threaten us

1 1 Mark Carney said robots can replace hands and heads but not heart The retail sector has already been shaped profoundly by technological change, from online fulfilment to warehouse robots and in-store automated technology.

But what does this mean for retail employment and what effects will it have on the high street?

The RICS NI Commercial Market Survey for Q2 2019 indicated that results for the retail sector were in decline across the board -in demand, investment inquiries and capital value expectations for its properties.It was suggested that changes in high street shopper habits continue to contribute as such and […]