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Injection Molding and Moldmaking Automation in Focus

Injection Molding and Moldmaking Automation in Focus

Automation of injection molding and moldmaking was framed as essential before the skilled labor shortage exploded, but now, in the face of the yawning skills gap, applying robotics to take on jobs that people are increasingly unwilling to perform is critical to manufacturing’s survival.

At the upcoming collocated Molding and Moldmaking Conferences (August 29-30; Minneapolis, Minn.), multiple presentations will directly address automation in the injection molding and moldmaking industries, giving attendees the opportunity to hear from suppliers and users of automation on and where robotics can be applied. Automation will be a key topic of multiple presentations at the Molding […]

Mercer: Don’t undermine your talent pipeline with AI

Mercer: Don’t undermine your talent pipeline with AI

Says futurist Ravin Jesuthasan in an exclusive UNLEASH interview.

By: Interview in Brief

For futurist Ravin Jesuthasan, AI will democratize access to knowledge.But he warns about the dangers of "cutting the legs off" the pipeline of future leaders, by replacing too many junior roles with AI.Check out the exclusive UNLEASH interview.Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT catapulted to fame in November 2022, this new emerging technology, generative AI, has dominated the news cycle.As a result, workers across the world are increasingly becoming aware of the technology and questioning, ‘what does this mean for my role?’Caltech lecturer, futurist and AI expert Ravin […]

Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Amazon’s New Robots Are Rolling Out an Automation Revolution

Pause In a giant warehouse in Reading, Massachusetts, I meet a pair of robots that look like goofy green footstools from the future. Their round eyes and satisfied grins are rendered with light emitting diodes. They sport small lidar sensors like tiny hats that scan nearby objects and people in 3D. Suddenly, one of them plays a chipper little tune, its mouth starts flashing, and its eyes morph into heart shapes. This means, I am told, that the robot is happy.

Proteus, as Amazon calls this machine, is not like other industrial robots, which are generally as expressive and aware […]

The Bot Brief

The Bot Brief

"There is no force on earth more powerful than an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo

Bots in The News:

With terrible domestic and Japanese markets last week, the Bot Index experienced only three gainers for the week. Amazon demonstrated the only real gain, at 3%, while Apple and Lockheed Martin were up fractionally. As a result, the Bots fell 3.50% while the general market was off 1.39%. Amazon’s gain was attributed to considerable ‘noise’ surrounding the company’s use of AI in corporate strategies involving cloud-based computing and storage.NIO Inc. was the sole double-digit decliner with a 10.32% […]

Automation for Smart Manufacturing Conference to Showcase Industry’s Latest Innovations

Automation for Smart Manufacturing Conference to Showcase Industry’s Latest Innovations

The conference will feature a series of engaging sessions, including keynote addresses, panel discussions, and technical presentations, providing attendees with valuable insights and trends to enhance their automation solution adoption process. The Automation Industry Association (AIA) is gearing up to host the highly anticipated “Automation for Smart Manufacturing” (ASM) conference on June 30, 2023, at The Residency Tower in Coimbatore. This much-awaited event promises to be a platform for industry specialists, thought leaders, and technology suppliers to discuss and showcase the latest advancements in automation solutions and their role in shaping smart manufacturing.

With a focus on digital enablement […]

Top 10 Impactful Job Automation by AI

Top 10 Impactful Job Automation by AI

We’ve developed a comprehensive list of the top 10 impactful Job automation by AI

The AI revolution is altering our interactions with technology. Every day, artificial intelligence and robotics get more advanced. With its superior automated capabilities, AI is taking over the majority of occupations traditionally performed by humans. Concerns about the safety and future of work have grown steadily. Yet, like all other revolutionary technology in the past, AI is likely to create numerous new possibilities and highlight the hazards connected with existing employment.

Manufacturing and Robotics: AI-powered robots increasingly replace human workers in manufacturing, leading to […]

The myth of AI-driven unemployment

Recent advances in artificial-intelligence (AI) technology have raised the spectre of mass displacement in labour markets. It is no longer just blue-collar factory and construction jobs that are at risk of being taken over by machines; a wide range of professional and service jobs have become newly vulnerable as well.
In the US, up to 47% of all jobs could be automated in the coming years. So, is the world headed toward economic devastation, or will this era of job destruction also bring comparable levels of job creation?
An innovation’s impact on employment depends on the ratio between its […]

Will AI Change the Workforce Structure? It Already Has

Will AI Change the Workforce Structure? It Already Has

Increased investment in AI has lead to companies restructuring – opting for more educated junior employees and cutting out middle-management and senior positions.

AI adoption has sparked fears across that it’s adoption within industry will lead to major job losses, with lower-level positions expected to take the greatest hit.

“Most execs will take the opportunity to rethink how their organisations are structured and where the greatest savings and productivity gains will be had,” Theo Priestly, a futurist, commented. He added: “This means that most low-level work can be automated using AI agents to complete simple to moderately complex tasks.”But a research […]

Female employees more likely to be affected by AI automation

Female employees more likely to be affected by AI automation

With the rise of AI automation, women are more likely to be disproportionately impacted due to gender disparity in certain fields of work. Women are more likely to be more affected by the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) automation in the workforce, because they are more represented in job sectors which involve functions that overlap with AI.

This, compounded with the fact that women are less presented in fields where AI has less effect, such as blue-collar manual work, means that there is a gendered impact with regards to how AI affects employees, especially in Asia’s major economies, according to […]

AI won’t kill our jobs — but it will make them worse

The trouble with AI isn’t that it’s new, it’s that it will trigger a very old process

Jason Resnikoff is the author of "Labor’s End: How the Promise of Automation Degraded Work" and assistant professor of contemporary history at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands. Concerns abound that the AI technology behind ChatGPT will lead to the elimination of scores of white-collar, professional jobs. (Richard Drew/AP) Listen

Gift ArticlePredictions have been rife that large language models (LLMs), and especially the most recent manifestation, ChatGPT, will bring about a “ revolution ” in skilled white-collar work and eliminate the need for […]