Category: Automation Impact on Jobs

Scanning the Range’s future

Scanning the Range’s future

EVELETH — Second-year Advanced Level Welding Technology students David Kangas and Derek Steinbach stand outside a cage surrounding two robotic welders and watch as sparks fly while the torch arm on one robot completes a couple welds.

Other second-year students gather around to observe what the new technology at Mesabi Range College’s Eveleth campus can accomplish.

The robot has performed the most dangerous part of the job. But labor also went into programming the automation to do what the students wanted.Robotic welding is a growing part of the welding industry. And to provide MRC students with skills necessary to compete in […]

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 […]

Robotics and AI could mean 60,000 NI job losses, research finds

Robotics and AI could mean 60,000 NI job losses, research finds

Vorstellung des Roboters Roboy, einer Neuentwicklung des Artificial- Intelligence- Lab der Universit�t Z�rich.”27.Februar 2013.”Bild: Adrian Baer As many as 60,000 jobs in Northern Ireland are at “high risk” due to advancing technology, new research into automation has found.

The Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI) looked at the potential impact of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and other technologies on the Northern Ireland workforce and found 7% of jobs here are at risk of being lost entirely.

Most jobs (58%) are at risk of “substantial change”, according to the research.The report highlights the importance of unionisation and collective […]

Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

By Una Murphy

When Peggy Seeger sang that she wanted “to be an engineer” she was hitting the right note.

Engineers are NOT among the 60,000 people in Northern Ireland expected to lose their jobs due to the impact of automation, according to a new report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI).It is one of the best jobs to be employed at because as a ‘non-routine, abstract/cognitive high skilled occupation, it is less likely to be affected by automation technologies.Carers and people working in leisure jobs are also less likely to be replaced by robots however they still face […]

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 […]

Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

Automation ‘a threat to 60,000 Northern Ireland jobs’

By Una Murphy

When Peggy Seeger sang that she wanted “to be an engineer” she was hitting the right note.

Engineers are NOT among the 60,000 people in Northern Ireland expected to lose their jobs due to the impact of automation, according to a new report by the Nevin Economic Research Institute (NERI).It is one of the best jobs to be employed at because as a ‘non-routine, abstract/cognitive high skilled occupation, it is less likely to be affected by automation technologies.Carers and people working in leisure jobs are also less likely to be replaced by robots however they still face […]

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 […]

Can Artificial Intelligence Steal your Job? Perhaps Not Rather Modify

Can Artificial Intelligence Steal your Job? Perhaps Not Rather Modify

Though some forms of AI shows its cleverness, it would be impractical to assume that current AI counterparts human intelligence.

If the murmur around Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made you nervous that it will soon displace your job as the technology works more promptly than human brain. But the truth is that AI actually empowers workers to centre on higher-level thinking and crafting. This is not a hindrance; rather it is needed for a workplace. Currently, AI is providing human intelligence all over the continuum from banking to media.

AI consists of software tools which are used to solve problems. […]