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Can robots coexist with humans?

Can robots coexist with humans?

Working together: will robots be central to our future? Katie Dolamore

With advances in artificial intelligence forging ahead, it’s time to think seriously about how we see robots fitting into our society.

Of all the tech trends dominating headlines at the moment, artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be generating the most debate.As we continue to develop this technology – at a seemingly exponential rate – we face increasing pressure to examine the role we really want it to fulfil, and how it should be integrated.With many high-profile figures – from Stephen Hawking to Elon Musk – warning of […]

E-Learning Platforms Take European Telecommunications Companies by Storm

E-Learning Platforms Take European Telecommunications Companies by Storm

At many top telecommunications companies around Europe, there’s a problem: some of the manufacturing technology they designed is working too well. The Siemens Electronics Plant in Amberg Germany, for example, houses hundreds of different intelligent, automated machines that collectively produce over 950 different products in 50,000 variations. These machines make a mistake with only 12 devices per million.

For shareholders, that sounds like great news, but for factory employees, that sounds like they’re out of a job. Large-scale factory automation is here, and many who formerly relied on line jobs are updating their CVs and scanning job listings.

Manufacturing Needs […]

Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge

Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge

A worker monitoring an embroidery sewing machine at a mattress factory in New Jersey. Is a new golden age for the American worker around the corner?

For the last couple of years, workers’ median earnings have been rising on a sustained path not seen in years.

This may come as a surprise after decades of wage stagnation, when the good jobs of an earlier industrial era — in which workers could go straight from high school to a lifelong place on the factory floor, with a pension on the other end — have largely disappeared, replaced in many cases by work […]

Why international trade matters for Illinois

Why international trade matters for Illinois

Illinois will need more foreign investment, and major reforms to the state’s business climate, in order to get off the weak economic path it now treads.

Gov. Bruce Rauner has just returned from an eight-day trip to Japan and China – his administration’s first international trade mission.

Illinoisans should hope the governor can help bring international job creators and investment to the state to stimulate a lackluster employment picture. Rather than being a burden on Illinois families, international trade has largely served as a blessing, and has the potential to jumpstart the Land of Lincoln’s sluggish growth. State of the state […]

Why skills and education are the real robot battleground

Why skills and education are the real robot battleground

This has been a record-breaking year for industrial robotics, says the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) of the US.

In total, over 19,000 industrial robots worth $1 billion were sold in North America alone during the first half of 2017, the highest ever number of orders for the region. The figures reveal a one-third year-on-year increase in shipments for the first two quarters, and a 26% surge in spending.

Orders grew most in the automotive sector, which saw a 39% increase in purchases. Globally, the automotive robotics market is set to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.74 per […]

Singapore embraces ‘activist approach’ to change

Singapore embraces ‘activist approach’ to change

Tharman blasts HR in Budget attack on ageism HR leaders have been urged by Deputy PM Tharman Shanmugaratnam to stop their “unstated discrimination” against older workers looking for jobs.

Are you asking illegal interview questions? Have you ever asked a job applicant how old they are? If you have, you might be breaking the law. A leading Singapore employment lawyer looks at which interview questions could land you in hot water.

Singapore must embrace change to face the twin challenges of global population aging and relentless technology, said the second minister for Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower , […]

Risk of Filipino workers being replaced by robots low–Unctad

The risk of workers in developing economies, including the Philippines, being displaced by robot-based automation of manufacturing processes remains to be low, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (Unctad) 2017 Trade and Development Report.

In the Trade and Development Report 2017, with the theme “Beyond Austerity: Towards a Global New Deal”, the impact of growing automation via robots on industries, specifically in manufacturing, presents a complex picture.

Routine tasks in well-paying manufacturing and service jobs are being replaced by robots, according to the report, but low-wage manufacturing jobs in areas such as clothing factories are left largely […]

Manufacturing needs workers with multi-disciplinary skills

Manufacturing needs workers with multi-disciplinary skills

Tharman blasts HR in Budget attack on ageism HR leaders have been urged by Deputy PM Tharman Shanmugaratnam to stop their “unstated discrimination” against older workers looking for jobs.

Are you asking illegal interview questions? Have you ever asked a job applicant how old they are? If you have, you might be breaking the law. A leading Singapore employment lawyer looks at which interview questions could land you in hot water.

The manufacturing sector, which makes up one-fifth of the Singapore economy, grew 8.1% year-on-year in the second quarter after growing 8.5% in the first.Employment has been […]

Gerdy: A Workforce Trifecta in the Lynchburg Construction Industry

Gerdy: A Workforce Trifecta in the Lynchburg Construction Industry

Small contractors, manufacturers and similar businesses across the country are finding it increasingly difficult to find people qualified for highly skilled trades jobs. Over the last three or four decades, we have all witnessed manufacturing jobs being outsourced to countries with large poorly paid and often abused workforces. Minimal regulations and sometimes absence of any industry oversight creates opportunities to produce products at a fraction of the cost of producing them in the United States. Outsourcing combined with the fact that automation has eliminated thousands of more jobs has created challenges for both businesses and employees. Businesses are often […]

Robots can create, not eliminate, jobs, says UN report

Robots can create, not eliminate, jobs, says UN report

NEW DELHI: Do robots steal jobs and leave people poorer? We recommend this video to you-US

BABA NETWORK LTD. TAP TO WATCH China has the second largest army of industrial robots today, and its real wages have increased about 1.5 times in the past 10 years. In both Germany and Mexico, increasing automation has created more jobs, a United Nations report released on Thursday says. "…it is interesting to note that some countries where robot density is large, including Germany and the Republic of (South) Korea, as well as countries where the accumulation of robots has been rapid, such as […]