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HSBC introduces ‘Pepper’ the robot — promising fun, efficiency and job growth

HSBC introduces 'Pepper' the robot — promising fun, efficiency and job growth

Pepper has speakers and cameras embedded in its head, though the bank says it does not record any customer information. (Nick Boisvert/CBC) Near the bank tellers at a downtown Toronto HSBC branch, a robot that’s a little more than a metre tall invites customers to ask for help before waiting in line for its human co-workers.

A touchscreen tablet attached to its chest brings "Pepper" to life. Cameras embedded in the robot’s head allow it to uncannily track human faces in its line of sight.

"How may I help you?" it asks, craning upward.For the moment, Pepper’s options are limited, but […]

How to Choose a Job That Won’t Be Replaced By Robots

How to Choose a Job That Won't Be Replaced By Robots

Indypendenz/Shutterstock Both blue- and white-collar routine jobs are at risk of displacement by robots, while nonroutine, abstract occupations are more difficult to automate – for now.

Jobs involving creativity and emotional intelligence are the least likely to be replaced by automation.

Lifelong re-education may be the surest way to professional survival. If the idea of a C-3PO-like robot occupying your current job, whether that’s teaching a class of kindergarteners or auditing taxes, sounds far-fetched 10 years from now, you’re not wrong. However, experts caution that 25% of U.S. jobs are at "high risk" of automation (with another 36% at […]

How Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Transform the Engineers’ Jobs

How Artificial Intelligence Is Going to Transform the Engineers' Jobs

Smart factory ipopba/iStock An engineer checking and controlling welding robotics automatic arms machines in an intelligent industrial automotive factory using a monitoring system software used to belong to the science fiction realm.

However, this is the reality of d igital manufacturing operations in today’s Industry 4.0 smart factories. Industry 4.0 is a concept that originated in Germany and is related to the integration of Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) technology with networking and analytics with industry processes.

Another ingredient in Industry 4.0 is Artificial Intelligence , one of the fastest growing emerging technologies with a market expected to reach […]

Indian women more tech-savvy than western counterparts

Indian women more tech-savvy than western counterparts

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is the fastest-growing field of employment in the world, and also one of the largest fastest growing sectors.

Traditionally, STEM sector industries have been male-dominated, but in recent years, there has been a rising interest in hiring women for these jobs. One of the underlying reasons for the opening up of the technologically advanced employment sectors for women is the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies.

The evolution of AI-based automation has made technology capable of performing an ever-increasing number of applications. We are not only witnessing enhanced automation, but also superior […]

The Bots are Lining up for Your Job, Future Predictions Indicate

The Bots are Lining up for Your Job, Future Predictions Indicate

The bots are coming after your job, research indicates. Long before philosophers and futurist lived, it has been known that one day the bots will take over our jobs.

One thing that we will continue to debate over in the years to come is whether we should expect our future to look like that in the movie The Terminator”. No one wants to envision self-aware bots on the prowl hunting us down. The future might also resemble what is shown in The Jettisons where robots handle almost everything else leaving humans with nearly nothing to do.

A possible future is […]

The robots are coming for your job, too

The robots are coming for your job, too

The robots. They’re coming for your jobs. All of you. (CNN) — The robots. They’re coming for your jobs . All of you.

Long the prediction of futurists and philosophers, the lived reality of technology replacing human work has been a constant feature since the cotton gin, the assembly line and, more recently, the computer.

What is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like "The Terminator," with self-aware Schwarzenegger bots on the hunt, or "The Jetsons," with obedient robo-maids leaving us humans very little work and plenty of […]

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

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

For those who sweat for their daily bread-time, it is a longed-for sweetheart – until they get it, "he wrote, adding later that" man is confronted with his real, his constant problem – like his freedom of the press can use economic worries, how to occupy the spare time, the science and compound interest w w for him it is important to live wisely and pleasantly.

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 […]

The robots are coming for your job, too

The robots are coming for your job, too

Long the prediction of futurists and philosophers, the lived reality of technology replacing human work has been a constant feature since the cotton gin, the assembly line and, more recently, the computer.

What is very much up for debate in the imaginations of economists and Hollywood producers is whether the future will look like "The Terminator," with self-aware Schwarzenegger bots on the hunt, or "The Jetsons," with obedient robo-maids leaving us humans very little work and plenty of time for leisure and family. The most chilling future in film may be that in Disney’s "Wall-E," where people are all too […]

The robots are here, but creativity can fend them off

The robots are here, but creativity can fend them off

There’s no doubt data and artificial intelligence are changing the face of employment. According to a recent study, 45% of American jobs are at risk of being automated within 20 years.

For evidence, look no further than the autonomous vehicle — a technology we already see on our roads. Is it implausible to imagine a world without taxi and ride-sharing drivers, truck and delivery drivers, or ship and airline captains?

Few debate the impact that analytics, machine learning and related technologies will have on nearly every facet of our economy and, as a result, the way we work. Many argue the […]

Labour pains: our rapidly changing workplace

Labour pains: our rapidly changing workplace

While Australian manufacturing never fully recovered from that tumult, the US, at least, had Apple and Microsoft leading the charge as its manufacturing base atrophied, with “Silicon Valley” now a byword for the digital economy. Australia continued, largely, to live off the back of a mining boom driven by China’s historic economic expansion, while investment in innovation lagged, and today is half that of countries like the US and Germany.

We hear a lot about the jobs of the future, usually from American media outlets gushing out a range of blue-sky predictions. What’s the next big thing? What will […]