Meet the Top Countries Leading the Global Robotics Revolution

Meet the Top Countries Leading the Global Robotics Revolution

The Fourth Industrial Revolution, marked by disruptive changes in artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, nanotechnology, and 3-D printing, will be a game changer not only to business models but also to labour markets in the years to come, with enormous skill additions predicted to be imperative to thrive in the new rapidly changing landscape.

The greater adoption of automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, will be a boon for businesses with an impactful global change. In a recent report by the Future of Jobs, employment opportunities will be created in tune of an estimated 2.1 million in more specialised areas such […]

AI and the Death of ‘Employment for Life’

AI and the Death of 'Employment for Life'

When AI brings about job losses and changes our careers, remember that we’ve been through this before, time and again.

There’s a fear that stalks artificial intelligence, and it’s spreading faster than any seasonal flu in a school filled with runny-nosed kids. Just mention AI to a small group of your peers and someone is sure to say, "But it’s going to put us out of work."

Yup, it’s going to put some — maybe many — people out of work. We can’t sugar-coat that fact. It stinks to lose a job.However, I want to offer some perspective based on my […]

Automation and Jobs: When Technology Boosts Employment

47 Pages Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last revised: 28 Mar 2018 Abstract

Do industries shed jobs when they adopt new labor-saving technologies? Sometimes productivity-enhancing technology increases industry employment instead. In manufacturing, jobs grew along with productivity for a century or more; only later did productivity gains bring declining employment. What changed? Markets became saturated. While the literature on structural change provides reasons for the decline in the manufacturing share of employment, few papers can explain both the rise and subsequent fall. Using two centuries of data, a simple model of demand accurately explains the rise and fall of employment […]

A Future That Works: Automation, Employment And Productivity

A Future That Works: Automation, Employment And Productivity

A place for the discussion of automation, additive manufacturing, robotics, AI, and all the other tools we’ve created to enable a global paradise free of menial labor. All can share in our achievements in a world where food is produced, water is purified, and housing is constructed by machines.

Once, a long time ago, a shovel was a marvel of modern technology. Today, a shovel is $3.99 at the hardware store. Who says the same won’t happen with robotics ?

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Robots to make robots at ABB’s new $150 million factory in China

FILE PHOTO: Humanoid robot YuMi conducts the Lucca Philharmonic Orchestra performing a concert alongside Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (unsee By John Miller

ZURICH (Reuters) – Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s largest maker of industrial robots.

The factory, located near ABB’s China robotics campus, is due to be operating by the end of 2020 and will produce robots for China as well as for export elsewhere in Asia. China is ABB’s […]

The Catholic view on a contactless world

The Catholic view on a contactless world

With workers being replaced by machines, Fr Stephen Reilly suggests how best to respond

THE UK government is reportedly considering enlisting Britain’s postal workers to check in on lonely elderly people, chat to them and link them in with local community support.

This laudable initiative is a response to government surveys showing that three quarters of GPs see between one and five patients a day who are suffering loneliness.Meanwhile, earlier this year Amazon opened an entirely automated grocery store, Amazon Go, in Seattle. Closer to home, a greater proportion of tills are automatic, and supermarkets are considering scan-as-you-shop, to eliminate […]

Workplace of the future will still need humans, conference hears

Workplace of the future will still need humans, conference hears

Expert says ‘perceived unstoppable march of robots coming to take our jobs is overstated’

Pictured is JiLL, a robot with inbuilt facial recognition software, who greets visitors at real estate firm JLL’s Sydney office. The likelihood that a super smart robot army will soon be marching on Irish workplaces and stealing the jobs of simple humans was downplayed at a Dublin event focusing on the workplaces of the future.

Addressing a conference organised by the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants (AHCP), Dr Lisa Wilson of the Nevin Economic Research Institute said the “perceived unstoppable march of robots coming […]

Boosting education will help address short-term economic pain of AI, Mark Carney tells U of T audience

Boosting education will help address short-term economic pain of AI, Mark Carney tells U of T audience

The revolution spawned by artificial intelligence and machine learning will – like previous industrial revolutions – hurt employment and wage levels in the short term, Bank of England Governor Mark Carney told a University of Toronto audience on Tuesday. But in the long run, he said, productivity gains will kick in and employment levels will recover, if historical precedents are a guide.

Carney, a former Bank of Canada governor, was speaking at the fourth annual conference on Machine Learning and the Market for Intelligence organized by the Creative Destruction Lab at U of T’s Rotman School of Management. About 600 […]

Q&A: AI and the future of business

Q&A: AI and the future of business

What impact will AI have on the world of work over the next 10-15 years?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) will disrupt industries of all kinds, from manufacturing to healthcare, but the technology’s most immediate impact will be felt by the workers supporting these industries.

AI will find new efficiencies in almost any process-driven work, which will lead to better products and services, lower production costs and shorter supply chains. Over the course of this process, a vast number of jobs that are currently held by humans will be replaced. This will shake up the world of work more […]

How construction robots can amplify workers’ expertise

How construction robots can amplify workers' expertise

Construction jobsites will one day be bustling with “terminator-type,” humanoid robots , according to Scott Peters, president and co-founder of Construction Robotics, but that future may be a long ways off for the industry.

For now, the Victor, New York-based company recognizes that human workers have unique expertise and problem-solving skills to offer, and that to increase productivity on jobsites, robots should first be used to augment those capabilities.

“Humans have this amazing ability to take a challenging situation, think in real time and then be able to adjust to it,” he said in a recent webinar titled Robotic Construction: How […]