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How Globalization and Robotics Speed Up Job Losses

How Globalization and Robotics Speed Up Job Losses

The twin trends of globalization and robotics — or globotics — will usher in a period of unprecedented disruption that could displace workers at the fastest pace in history, argues Richard Baldwin, international economics professor at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, in his new book, The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work.

Like factory workers who lost their jobs to automation, white-collar and service workers are now in danger of being displaced en masse, said Baldwin, also editor-in-chief of policy website VoxEU.org. He recently joined the Knowledge@Wharton radio show on SiriusXM to discuss this trend and how […]

Can Technology Save Us?

Can Technology Save Us?

The economy has been trapped in a one-step-forward, two-steps-back cycle nearly a decade running.

One door opens, two slam shut.

A ray of sun cracks through, the overcast patches the hole.Rapidly advancing technology offers a way out, its drummers claim.They insist automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) will soon catapult the economic system into vastly more productive realms.By 2030 alone, they believe it could yield an additional $16 trillion to global GDP.They further claim 40–50% of human occupations will be subject to automation over the next 15–20 years.These are not limited to trucking, taxi driving or manufacturing and construction.To these we […]

Job crises: Unemployment rate rose to 7.2% in Feb 2019, reports CMIE

Job crises: Unemployment rate rose to 7.2% in Feb 2019, reports CMIE

Robots in Jobs The job fair organised by a local college at Chinchwad town of Pune may bring some hopes to hundreds of lined up unemployed youth, but if one takes a close look- the situation seems more abject and gloomy.

India which produces highest number of engineers in the world has been grappling from last few years with high unemployment rate and under-employment. The latest report of Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) think tank alludes to the abject scenario in a more empirical way. As per report Unemployment rate rose to 7.2% to in last month as compared […]

Automation For The People? Ohio Valley At High Risk For Job Losses

Automation For The People? Ohio Valley At High Risk For Job Losses

Amazon employee Andre Woodson made his way among yellow bins traveling through a vast warehouse filled with boxes and envelopes to be packed, sorted and shipped. In Amazon-speak, this is a “fulfillment center.”

“Our Jeffersonville, Indiana, fulfillment center is about 1.2 million square feet, which is equivalent to about 28 football fields,” Woodson explained.

About 2,500 people work here. But looking out across the floor it’s sometimes hard to find a human among the boxes, bins and conveyor belts. Often they’re working closely with the machinery. At a packing station an employee is surrounded by boxes and envelopes of different sizes. […]

Working Alongside People: Rise of the Cobots

Working Alongside People: Rise of the Cobots

Everyone’s biggest fear is the robots taking over the world. Artificial intelligence is continuously evolving and learning human behavior, and along with the rise of automation, the Terminator scenario does not seem too far-fetched.

What if, instead, they worked with us? Instead of the us or them situation, what if the situation changed to include both humans and robots? Working alongside robots does not sound too bad, does it?

This was the basic concept behind cobots. Read our research blog to find out more about what exactly a cobot is, how they work, what they do, and more. What are Cobots? […]

Automation will change work in Indiana

Automation will change work in Indiana

Automation will replace many of today’s jobs, but workers can get prepared. Metro Graphics Service The latest Brookings Institution study projecting the employment impact of automation and artificial intelligence underscores the importance of efforts to upskill the region’s workforce.

The study released earlier this year ranked states and metro areas based on their vulnerability to the job displacement that will accompany widespread adoption of these technologies.

Indiana topped the ranking of states, partly because manufacturing is such a large part of its employment base. Kokomo placed second and Elkhart placed third in the ranking of cities most likely to lose jobs […]

John Oliver’s Segment on Jobs and Automation Doesn’t Quite Get It Right

John Oliver’s Segment on Jobs and Automation Doesn’t Quite Get It Right

Photo via Wikimedia Commons The popular HBO host makes some good points, but there’s more to the story.

John Oliver tackles some wonky issues on his HBO show, Last Week Tonight. Sunday’s episode was no exception, as he examined a topic very dear to our hearts: Automation.

And Oliver’s bit certainly garnered a lot of attention, with more than 4.3 million views on the show’s YouTube channel alone. But unfortunately, Oliver didn’t quite get it right — and given the host’s incredible reach, it’s important we clarify a few things (even if my seven Twitter followers don’t have quite the same […]

Designed by Apple, built by robots

Designed by Apple, built by robots

Apple’s 13 th Annual Supplier Responsibility Report reveals a huge amount of interesting insights into how the company works, but perhaps some of the most revealing hints are those suggesting the fast-growing importance of robotics across its supply chain. Designed by Apple, built by robots

I took a birds-eye view through Apple’s report and noticed the following : “744 supplier employees earned a certification in assembly line robotics in 2018.

203 Supplier Employee Education and Development (SEED) program participants now hold advanced robotics positions at supplier facilities.” These two nuggets of data are revealed in part of the […]

Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst

Why Self-Checkout Is and Has Always Been the Worst

Photo: Chelsea Beck (Gizmodo)

Automation is often presented as an inexorably advancing force, whether it’s ushering in a threat to jobs or a promise of increased leisure or larger profits. We’re made to imagine the robots rising, increasingly mechanized systems of production, more streamlined modes of everyday living. But the truth is that automation technology and automated systems very often fail. And even when they do, they nonetheless frequently wind up stranded in our lives.

For every automated appliance or system that actually makes performing a task easier—dishwashers, ATMs, robotic factory arms, say—there seems to be another one—self-checkout kiosks, automated phone […]

Brendan Keenan: ‘Towns face uncertain future as march of the robots gathers pace’

Brendan Keenan: 'Towns face uncertain future as march of the robots gathers pace'

1 Attendees take smartphone photographs of humanoid robot ‘Sophia’ at Barcelona’s MWC – research has found some towns could lose almost 60pc of jobs to automation. Photo: Bloomberg A shrewd observer once noted that probably the two most successful organisations in the country are the GAA and the Tidy Towns competition. What they have in common is that they are largely volunteer-driven, and are intensely local.

Old romantic that I am, I see in this one of the last traces of the Gaelic world, a world that is not long gone in historical terms. In that world, what you were […]