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One in four Wisconsin jobs at high risk in a new age of robotic workers and hyper-automation

One in four Wisconsin jobs at high risk in a new age of robotic workers and hyper-automation

Nalby Varoqua (center), an engineer with Sharp Robotics Business Development, demonstrates a security robot. Sharp is a division of Foxconn Technology Group, one of Asia’s most aggressive adopters of robots and automation. The robot was demonstrated in July 2017 at the Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee. (Photo: Michael Sears, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) When it comes to replacing humans with robots, few companies are as enthusiastic as Foxconn Technology Group.

In its drive to manufacture iPhones, TVs and game consoles at the lowest cost, Foxconn systematically has replaced tens of thousands of inexpensive Chinese workers with even cheaper and more […]

How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

Should workers fear the robots ? You don’t have to look far to find lots of people shouting "yes."

Magazines and newspapers blare headlines like " Welcoming our new robot overlords ," " When your new co-worker is a robot ," and " You will lose your job to a robot — and sooner than you think ." Studies suggest anywhere from 9 percent to 47 percent of American jobs could be automated in the next few decades. In 2017, Bill Gates proposed a "robot tax" to address the problem. Andrew Yang, a long-shot contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, […]

Mouser Electronics: Collaborative robots are transforming industry

Mouser Electronics: Collaborative robots are transforming industry

For several generations, industry has been well served by robots. Now, cobots are transforming industry. Mouser Electronics’ Paul Golata explains.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has arrived. Its future is profound. Billions of devices are being connected into the internet allowing for the capture, manipulation and processing signals across a host of sources. Computers connect common everyday objects and devices that employ sensors to capture information.

Collecting analogue information from the external world, this network works to code it into digital signals and transfers it across time and space by means of the internet. Device, edge and cloud domains function […]

Why Horticulture Is Ripe for Artificial Intelligence

Why Horticulture Is Ripe for Artificial Intelligence

Laura Drotleff Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in the news right now, from autocorrecting cell phones to self-driving cars to new forays into agriculture by large companies like Microsoft. In many ways, it is an overarching term for a number of different tools that it encompasses, from computer vision to machine learning to deep learning to actual robots. It’s more complex than one broad definition, which experts worldwide are still struggling to come up with and agree upon. Add to that the other technologies that interface with AI — like the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and Blockchain, […]

DOL Urged to Better Track Impact of Advanced Technologies

DOL Urged to Better Track Impact of Advanced Technologies

According to officials from the 16 firms GAO interviewed for its report, cost savings and other considerations led them to adopt advanced technologies, despite facing certain risks with the technologies.

In a recent report , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) recommends that the Department of Labor develop ways to use existing or new data collection efforts to identify and systematically track the workforce effects of advanced technologies. According to the report, DOL agreed with the recommendation and plans to identify and recommend data collection options to fill gaps in existing information about how workers and workplaces are affected by new […]

Robot redundancy: four future scenarios for Kiwis’ jobs

Robot redundancy: four future scenarios for Kiwis' jobs

We’ve long been hearing about the threat of "robot redundancy" – and just whose jobs are at risk of automation.

Fewer than 5 per cent of jobs can be done entirely through automation today – and researchers have thrown out wildly varying forecasts how this might soon change.

One headline-grabbing study from Oxford University, suggesting that 47 per cent of all employment in the US was at risk of being replaced by computers and algorithms in the next 20 years, appeared overblown when set against findings of a forensic OECD investigation.Of the 21 advanced nations that report looked at, only 9 […]

Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs

Robots Are Stealing Our Jobs

A recent study predicts automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030. If you’re worried, you should be. Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Are you worried about losing your job? Perhaps you should be, not because of an influx of illegal immigrants but because of robots.

Our jobs are not being stolen, they are being destroyed. A recently released report conducted by the McKinsey Global Institute estimated automation will eliminate 73 million jobs by 2030 . While companies spend billions trying to improve efficiency through automation, we are often complicit in the job loss, perhaps without knowing it. […]

Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses

Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses

Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks with attendees during a campaign stop at Stonyfield Farms in Londonderry, New Hampshire, on April 19, 2019. Scott Eisen / Getty Images In his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Pete Buttigieg has been telling audiences that the U.S. lost six times as many jobs due to automation than trade from 2000 to 2010, according to The Washington Post . This is literally true, but for all practical purposes it is a very big lie.

The way in which it is true is that we always lose jobs to “automation,” which is known to […]

How long before the robots take over in South Africa?

How long before the robots take over in South Africa?

Robot workers replacing human jobs – the debate of the decade. In reality, the opposite looks true, according to research carried out by ManpowerGroup, which appears to show that more employers than ever – 87% – plan to increase or maintain headcount as a result of automation.

Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs.Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs.

At the same time, companies are scaling their up-skilling programs so that their human workforce can perform new and complementary roles […]

Businesses adopting digital tech to provide better customer experience: Report

Businesses adopting digital tech to provide better customer experience: Report

Digital transformation also open door to new business opportunities, thus creating employment NEW DELHI: Today, India is at the cusp of digital transformation. With nearly 500 million internet users and roughly 340 million smartphone users in 2018, the digital wave is touching the lives of millions of people, shaping them into a digitally empowered society.

According to a new report by AIMA and KPMG on the ‘Socio Economic Impact of Digital Transformation, businesses are adopting digital technologies to achieve higher operational efficiencies and provide better customer experience.

Technology start-ups have further accelerated the trend by disrupting the traditional industries through innovative […]