Tag: Technical

Robots and Jobs: What happens when the work gets automated?

Robots and Jobs: What happens when the work gets automated?

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And while it makes life easier for individual workers, management The transition from one type of economy to the next (farmer to manufacturer, information specialist, and now beyond) has been an important long-term reality […]

Are Adorable Robots Coming For Your Job? ‘It’s Never Happened In The Past’

Are Adorable Robots Coming For Your Job? 'It's Never Happened In The Past'

Jason Margolis/WGBH News About 15,000 robots named “Pepper” are used in Japanese and European banks, fast service restaurants and health care settings. Pepper is now in U.S. bank branches, too — HSBC has them in select locations to help answer basic customer questions and skip the line for the teller. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is sounding the alarm: the robots are coming for your job.

“Technology is now automating away millions of American jobs. It’s why Donald trump is our president today,” Yang said at the first Democratic primary debate in June. “We automated away 4 million manufacturing jobs […]

Advanced Manufacturing Disrupts the Location Process

Advanced Manufacturing Disrupts the Location Process

Broadly speaking, advanced manufacturing can be defined as the inclusion of new, more efficient manufacturing methods enabled by technological innovation. The adoption of technology-driven automation in manufacturing has been omnipresent since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, but the rapid pace of advancements — especially around robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and 3-D printing/additive manufacturing — is changing the industrial landscape faster than ever before. When the time comes to select a physical location for a new advanced manufacturing facility, these technological shifts are manifesting themselves in an updated approach to location strategy, specifically when it comes to hiring profiles, […]

Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?

Will the next wave of humanoid robots make our lives better — or steal our jobs?

About 15,000 robots named “Pepper” are used in Japanese and European banks, fast service restaurants, and healthcare settings. Pepper is now in US bank branches, too. HSBC has them in select locations to help answer basic customer questions and skip the line for the teller. About 15,000 robots named “Pepper” are used in Japanese and European banks, fast service restaurants, and healthcare settings. Pepper is now in US bank branches too — HSBC has them in select locations to help answer basic customer questions. Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang is sounding the alarm: The robots are coming for your […]

The robots are coming…to create jobs and opportunities

It may be an unsettling thought for many business owners to imagine that in a few years’ time, their workforce could look completely different, with a host of, as yet, unidentified new skills required to run operations – many of which their current workforce will not possess.

The proposition that a significant proportion of the jobs available right now will no longer be required in ten or twenty years is not unique to any one industry.

Indeed, such is the time we’re living in that there are even handy online tools which, with the click of a button, can give employees […]

The robots are coming…to create jobs and opportunities

The robots are coming...to create jobs and opportunities

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It may be an unsettling thought for many business owners to imagine that in a few years’ time, their workforce could look completely different, with a host of, as yet, unidentified new skills required to run operations – many of which their current workforce will not possess.The proposition that a significant proportion of the jobs available right now will no longer be required in ten or twenty years is not unique to any one industry.Indeed, such is the time we’re living in that there are even handy online tools which, with the click of a button, can […]

Jostled by robots and new job-seekers, auto workers have to accept their insecure fate

Jostled by robots and new job-seekers, auto workers have to accept their insecure fate

BRAKES ON JOBS: With production slowing across the auto industry, temporary workers are the first to go It’s mid-afternoon in Gurgaon. Lines of uniformed men are streaming into the Maruti plant, from nearby Mullahera village where they live, several to a cramped room. The colour of their uniform marks their status — permanent, casual, temporary (hired for six months at a time), and apprentice. While they all do similar work in various parts of the factory, this status makes all the difference to their income, security and prospects.
With production slowing across the auto industry , temporary workers […]

The robots are coming — but take a breath

The robots are coming — but take a breath

While automation and robots will displace millions of jobs, it’ll most likely create millions more.

Our current round of technological unemployment might just be a transitionary phase.

The fear of automation has been around for decades. Automation, and the rise of robots with superior AI promises to bring about a new era of industry and civilization. Our wildest sci-fi dreams could be realized within the century. Yet, the clamor and hoopla surrounding the topic has been overwhelmingly pessimistic – bordering on neo-luddism at times. That is, the fear is that advancements in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics will […]

What’s Worse Than Being Replaced By a Robot?

What's Worse Than Being Replaced By a Robot?

Conversations around artificial intelligence and automation tend toward the apocalyptic. In January, the Brookings Institution reported that more than 35 million Americans hold jobs with "high exposure" to automation. These vulnerable professionals – occupying roles in production, food service, and transportation – could already see at least 70% of their day-to-day tasks replicated by a machine. It’s clear that these machines will soon graduate from replicating tasks to replicating entire jobs, even mechanizing entire industries. The report anticipates this massive shift and concludes with a call to action. To "mitigate coming stresses," it reads, organizations will need to pursue […]

Multi-Disciplinary Education In The 4IR Era

Multi-Disciplinary Education In The 4IR Era

There is an adage that states “if you want to know the future of a nation, study the behavior of its teachers”.

The most potent force for political, economic and social progress in society is education. The measure of how great a nation will rise is determined by how many people in its population are educated. The African continent today has a total purchasing power parity gross domestic product (GDP) of $6.7 trillion, and a population of 1.2 billion people.

According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), in 2016, sub-Saharan Africa had a literacy rate of 76% […]