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Pandemic boosts automation and robotics

Pandemic boosts automation and robotics

The coronavirus pandemic has devastated many businesses but Claus Risager has never been busier — demand at his Dutch-based company Blue Ocean Robotics has “skyrocketed”.

The company’s sales of disinfectant robots have risen 1,000 per cent this year on surging demand from hospitals, schools or airports such as London Heathrow. “Businesses where the perception of the customer is important want to show that they are doing something about safety,” Mr Risager said.

The pandemic is driving a shift in companies’ use of technology, both official statistics and business surveys suggest, making the automation and digitalisation industry one of the few winners […]

COVID-19: Job hunting in the post COVID world

COVID-19: Job hunting in the post COVID world

Navigating the labyrinthine world of jobs to climb up the career ladder can prove tricky in this precarious time we find ourselves in.

Shifts in patterns are already visible. Companies are doubling down on digitization, automation and artificial intelligence for business continuity; big and small players in the software industry are seriously mulling over letting their employees work from home permanently. And, then of course there is the small matter of 500 million lost jobs because of stringent lockdowns and economies grinding to a halt.

Clearly, a new mix of jobs and work pattern is emerging because of these pandemic-induced changes. […]

3 tips For Getting Staff Scheduling Software In 2020

3 tips For Getting Staff Scheduling Software In 2020

Being an owner, there are many things that you have to manage and tackle. With everything, staff management is quite difficult and challenging. Managing staff takes so much time and energy, in this matter staff scheduling software helps you a lot in every aspect. This can take make your business life much easy and feasible. Auto staff scheduling software is an evolution for management:

There is no magic thing, but software always makes you enough best in managing all tasks. Only clicking of one button makes you enough feasible in managing many tasks within a few seconds. Automation scheduling […]

5 Predictions: Impact Of AI And Automation On The Future Of Work

5 Predictions: Impact Of AI And Automation On The Future Of Work

5 Predictions: Impact Of AI And Automation On The Future Of Work

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Some people believe Artificial Intelligence and automation will take their jobs soon. This fear is not misguided in truth. Technology has replaced the bowling alley pinsetter, lift operator, and many more.Yet, it is not as gloomy as it seems. A study by PwC says only 3% of jobs have the potential to be replaced by robots or AI through the early 2020s. Automation and AI can also generate new jobs as well as contribute towards the global GDP by 2030.These smart technologies can […]

Autonomous Tractors, Excavators and More: Examining the Path Toward a Driverless Tomorrow

Autonomous Tractors, Excavators and More: Examining the Path Toward a Driverless Tomorrow

Autonomous equipment offers significant benefits with respect to efficiency, cost savings and safety. These machines are poised to have a profound impact in the off-road environment, upsetting and defying current models in relation to the size of the equipment and the role of the dealers and OEMs, as well as impacting the individual operator.

Although the equipment sectors that AEM represents have historically been hesitant to adopt innovative technologies, they are set for a significant amount of change, as autonomous vehicles (AV) dramatically alter the nature of the work. Future off-road autonomous equipment will handle the cycle of operation and […]

Real Unemployment Rate Revealed | Losing Jobs to Automation

Real Unemployment Rate Revealed | Losing Jobs to Automation

In economic speak, you usually see what they call U3 for the unemployment rate. This number started at a low 3.5% pre-pandemic and spiked up to 14.7% at its worst. That’s well above the previous recession which topped out at 10% in 2009. Unemployment has come down a little since and sits at 7.9%. Still, when looking around at my community and hearing from friends, I find this hard to believe. And I’m guessing you do as well.

The real unemployment rate is much higher than this number that’s often used by politicians. U3 omits a large portion of the […]

JOB SCARE: Accounting staff be warned; 97 percent of jobs could vanish

JOB SCARE: Accounting staff be warned; 97 percent of jobs could vanish

The issues arising from the changing nature of work in light of the current COVID-19 global pandemic formed the basis of a robust presentation and discussion in the first of a webinar series hosted by the School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT), UTech, Jamaica on October 1, 2020.

Leading the presentation, Professor Sean Thorpe, Head, SCIT, postulated that several categories of work will become defunct, necessitating persons in those sectors to remould themselves to fit the new paradigm.

Thorpe said the webinar marked the school’s contribution to the conversation on current and future opportunities available for students in light of […]

The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

The Threat of Workplace Automation in Future

Once workplace automation takes over will life be full of luxuries or we will be faced with new dilemmas?

People have been worried about machines taking over jobs and lives for a long time. Mechanization has been taking place progressively through the ages with machines replacing humans in a lot of tasks. So are we automating ourselves out of jobs?

John Maynard Keynes warned in 1930 “about the new scourge of technological unemployment”, which he termed as “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economizing the use of labor outrunning the pace at which we can find new uses […]

How Trump, Biden see automation and AI

How Trump, Biden see automation and AI

President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden both believe automation and AI will take jobs. The issue may come up at tonight’s debate, as the candidates talk about the economy.

In discussing automation, Biden has pointed to self-driving trucks, their threat to millions of trucking jobs and the need for more job training.

Trump hasn’t tweeted once about automation and robots, but when asked in 2017 by The New York Times whether factory jobs will be replaced by robots, he said, "They will, and we’ll make the robots, too."When it comes to automation and AI, the candidates aren’t as far […]

Is Technology Actually Making Things Better?

Is Technology Actually Making Things Better?

Photo: Louis Pasteur a French biologist, microbiologist, and chemist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization, in his laboratory. Painting by A. Edelfeldt in 1885. Public Domain. NEW YORK (IDN) – Technology and science have played a key role in human history. Many successive civilizations have contributed to the world’s advancement. Often the development of technology also helped these societies to dominate militarily, politically, and economically their neighbours, as well as increase the welfare of their citizens.

Following is the dialogue between Philosopher Dr John K. Davis, Professor of Philosophy at California State University, […]