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Robots need you – automation is creating jobs

Robots need you - automation is creating jobs

Robot workers replacing human jobs – the debate of the decade. In reality, the opposite looks true. Recent research carried out by ManpowerGroup shows that more employers than ever – 87% – plan to increase or maintain headcount as a result of automation for the third consecutive year.

Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs.Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs. At the same time, companies are scaling their up-skilling programs so that their human workforce can perform new and […]

How the robot workforce is creating jobs

Robot workers replacing human jobs is the debate of the decade – but, in reality, the opposite looks true.

Research out by ManpowerGroup shows that more employers than ever – 87% – plan to increase or maintain headcount as a result of automation for the third consecutive year.

Rather than reducing employment opportunities, organisations are investing in digital, shifting tasks to robots and creating jobs. At the same time, companies are scaling their up-skilling programs so that their human workforce can perform new and complementary roles to those done by machines.“As the employment and work environment continues to evolve, employers have […]

Spotlight: Time to prepare workers for future as fourth industrialization beckons

LONDON, April 11 (Xinhua) — Humans will be further liberated from strenuous and monotonous labor thanks to the development of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), big data and other technologies that lead to the fourth industrial revolution.

Industry and technology leaders have realized it is high time that businesses and universities prepare workers for the future in an innovative way.

FAREWELL TO STRENUOUS, REPETITIVE WORKThe Industry 4.0 Summit and Expo, the UK’s largest event for the fourth industrial revolution, running from Wednesday to Thursday in Manchester, attracted start-ups, manufacturing companies, universities and other institutions that are involved in development and application of […]

Report: Toledo area most vulnerable to automation in employment

Report: Toledo area most vulnerable to automation in employment

It seems safe to predict tractor-trailers will continue hauling the country’s goods across interstate highways in the near future.

Trucking veteran Ed Nagle, however, goes a step further. Even as autonomous vehicle technology advances and shapes the future economy, he expects a human will occupy big-rig driver’s seats for at least a decade to come.

“I tell people, when you’re ready to send your family up in an airplane without a pilot, then people will start to look at the possibility of an 80,000-pound vehicle going down the road unmanned,” said Mr. Nagle, president and CEO at Nagle Companies of Walbridge. […]

Opinion: Is automation the end of employment?

Opinion: Is automation the end of employment?

Associate Editor

We live in a time where robots not only manufacture materials we use every day, but operate them as well. Even fields that were thought to be immune, such as law or software engineering, are beginning to see the implementation of AI for some of the tasks involved.

To many, this is seen as nothing less than a crisis. A study conducted by Udemy in 2017 showed that the number one stress trigger for 43 percent of workers is being replaced by artificial intelligence.For those in that 43 percent, you may be relieved to know that your stress […]

A Declining Population is a Supreme Asset in The Age of AI, Robotics And Automation

A Declining Population is a Supreme Asset in The Age of AI, Robotics And Automation

A slew of articles from western outlets as well as the Hong Kong based anti-Beijing South China Morning Post have suggested that as China’s population is set to contract, this will have a negative impact on the economy. Ironically, this comes at a time when US Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is proposing a new economic model to deal with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and increased automation that will render many human jobs redundant sooner rather than later. As China is already a global leader in AI, China’s history of managing once uncontrollable population growth has led the […]

How to get the AI-powered American economy that we want

The American economy accelerated nicely in the middle of last year. A Two Percent Economy no more! Well, at least for a bit. Economic growth now seems to be reverting to the humdrum pace seen over most of the post-Financial Crisis recovery. (The Trump White House, it should be noted, sees things more optimistically .) The combo of slower labor force growth and productivity growth means the economy’s growth potential isn’t what it once was. I.P. Park, president and chief technical officer for LG Electronics, speaks on artificial intelligence during a keynote address at the 2019 CES in Las […]

Insight: Automation Lessons from Other Sectors

Insight: Automation Lessons from Other Sectors

In this feature, we explore lessons that the maritime supply chain can learn from industries which are leveraging automation to generate growth, boost competitiveness and create new opportunities.

In a previous insight, Port Technology focused on how automation could impact the employment of both landside workers and seafarers in the shipping industry, where it is predicted that many jobs could be replaced by intelligent machines and systems.

Despite these concerns, maritime is not the only field which automation could seriously effect.In fact, many other business areas have already changed massively as a result of technological advances like artificial intelligence […]

New Jobs in the AI Era

New Jobs in the AI Era

Takeaway: Nearly every technology advancement creates fears of unemployment, but AI stands to create far more jobs than it destroys.

Artificial intelligence is about to go mainstream in the enterprise, which means that a lot of the jobs currently done by humans will soon be done by machines. But will this lead to the massive wave of unemployment that some doomsayers predict, or will it produce a new era of employee productivity similar to what has greeted previous forms of automation ?

Even the most enthusiastic AI boosters admit that jobs will be lost during the transition, but they […]

Addressing the people and productivity conundrum

Addressing the people and productivity conundrum

Laurence Wood discusses how the food industry’s reliance upon manual labour is likely to change in the near future requiring a greater uptake of robotics and automation to help the food industry increase productivity, quality and yield.

In recent years, many UK food manufacturers have relied heavily on EU nationals to bolster their workforce. Now, however we a decline in the number of EU nationals working in this sector. Furthermore, statistics from the Food & Drink Federation predict that food and drink manufacturing businesses will need to recruit an additional 140,000 individuals by 2024 to meet the demands […]