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Automation generates more jobs opportunities in Asia than it demolishes

Automation generates more jobs opportunities in Asia than it demolishes

According to a new report from the Asia Development Bank (ADB), new technologies like robots, automation, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are creating more jobs in Asia than they destroy. Figure 1: The adoption of robotics and other connected systems stimulated higher productivity and economic growth, creating 134 million new jobs, compared with the 101 million lost to new technologies. Using productivity as a broad measure of technological advance, ADB’s input/output analysis of 12 economies in Asia found that, had output remained the same. Technology-driven increased productivity would have brought a 66 percent decrease in employment , equal to 101 […]

How Will Robotics and AI Evolve?

How Will Robotics and AI Evolve?

Precambrian marine life. Source: Ghedoghedo / CC BY-SA 3.0 At certain points in prehistoric epochs, the evolution of life experienced an explosion of diversified organisms within a relatively short time. The so-called Cambrian explosion is the best-known of these diversification events. Scientists have debated the scope and possible causes for the explosion for decades. Fossil records show that between 505 and 542 million years ago, all of our existing biological taxa appeared, forever altering the global ecosystem.

AI and robotics systems may become pervasive in society in the same way. Hundreds of years in the future, historians could look back […]

Robots to the rescue: How automation can create a more equal society

Robots to the rescue: How automation can create a more equal society

Discussion on automation often focuses on dystopian outcomes but it could improve gender equality at work.

Robots replace waiters in Indian restaurant Reuters If predictions are right , automation will transform work as we know it. But it’s difficult to know exactly which – and how many – jobs will be affected. Although there is a huge debate over just these questions, one area frequently overlooked is how automation will affect the prospect of gender equality.

Why advertise with us Right now, there are considerable differences in pay, employment levels, and the types of activities that men and women […]

Does automation create jobs

QA Automation Engineer jobs at The If you are a tech professional who wants to directly apply for jobs, do NOT please create a new account to apply for jobs Are Robots Going To Kill Your Next Job Or were doomed by their hesitation to adopt automation. Search Brookings. As a result, many fear that technology is creating job-stealing robots. A new report from Citi and the Oxford Martin School explores the varying impact that automation of jobs will have on countries and cities around the world, in the near future and the coming decades. Forbes blogger Tim Worstall […]

Leveraging Automation in Job Redesign

Leveraging Automation in Job Redesign

Automation can be a friend in the workplace instead of an enemy. In this lesson, you’ll learn more about ways to leverage software and technology to redesign the responsibilities of team members. Robots in the Workforce

You’ve seen the headlines and probably heard your friends talking:

‘Robots will take 800 million jobs…”The future is automated and we’re all at risk…”The automation apocalypse is upon us…’The idea that robots are going to displace human workers, virtually taking over all industries and eventually the planet is hyperbole of the highest order. But, that doesn’t mean that automation isn’t around. Automation is the […]

The future of factory jobs

The future of factory jobs

Not your grandfather’s manufacturing: Industry 4.0 is giving Singapore manufacturing a new lease of life – but with different jobs in tow. Can the skills keep up? BT ILLUSTRATION: SIMON ANG

PEOPLE are usually surprised when they find out that 49-year-old Azizul Syed is an assistant robotics engineer.

"Most would expect someone much younger – they are either supportive or sceptical," says Mr Azizul, who has worked for more than 20 years in German sensor manufacturing firm Pepperl+Fuchs. But he takes their expectations and assumptions in his stride. As an industry veteran, he has seen first-hand how the manufacturing landscape has […]

On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

On AI and Jobs, We Are All Augmentarians Now

Walmart’s Katie Finnegan onstage at Emtech Next For a couple of days this week, I attended the EmTech NEXT conference at MIT, which is organized by MIT Technology Review. The focus of the event was that fabled idea “The Future of Work,” and if you are on the side of the humans, the future seems pretty bright. Virtually every speaker (MIT folks, AI and robotics leaders) came out in favor of augmentation over automation. They say that AI and robots won’t take our jobs, but rather augment them by doing the things we humans don’t do so well.

I must […]

Robots to the Rescue—of Manufacturing

Robots to the Rescue—of Manufacturing

It’s mostly accepted wisdom in policy circles: automation means that manufacturing employment is destined to follow the historical example of farm work, becoming a negligible share of the U.S. workforce. Even those who embrace the Trump administration’s efforts to “onshore” factories say that we should be “honest about the facts,” especially to those Americans still out of work. The erudite Ben Sasse, a senator with a Ph.D. in history, has called the transformation an “irreversible trend.”

On the other hand, the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data show that over the past 12 months, industrial domains created twice as […]

Impact of automation on employment in india

The risk of jobs being replaced by automation varies by country including China and India The impact of automation may be more disruptive for developing Automation is expected to gain which said last year that automation threatens 69 per cent of the jobs in India. AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs. impact of automation on employment in india A study examined the actual and projected impact of automation on employment between 1963 and 2000. 5 million in India, The whole counter-argument to job losses caused by automation is the new How will automation affect jobs in India? India […]

AI, AUTOMATION, AND THE FUTURE OF WORK: TEN THINGS TO SOLVE FOR

BRIEFING NOTE PREPARED FOR THE TECH4GOOD SUMMIT, ORGANIZED BY THE FRENCH PRESIDENCY JUNE 2018

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are transforming businesses and will contribute to economic growth via contributions to productivity. They will also help address “moonshot†societal challenges in areas from health to climate change. At the same time, these technologies will transform the nature of work and the workplace itself—which is the focus of this briefing note. Machines will be able to carry out more of the tasks done by humans, complement the work that humans do, and even perform some tasks that go beyond what humans […]