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‘The Robots Are Coming!’

'The Robots Are Coming!'

The Robots Are Coming!: The Future of Jobs in the Age of Automation by Andres Oppenheimer

Published in April of 2019.

Will robots take all the jobs?What should colleges and universities do to prepare our graduates for the automation of cognitive work?How should higher education change in response to the new technologies, such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous connectivity? The Robots Are Coming joins a growing list of books that attempt to answer these questions.From a purely higher ed perspective, the best of the bunch is Joseph Aoun’s 2017 Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence […]

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Revamped Ford Chicago Assembly Plant Has 600 Robots

Ford is still talking up its revamped Chicago Assembly plant that it invested $1 billion into this year. The investment opened up 500 new jobs and brought a bunch of new robots into the factory. Ford is talking about those robots and notes that none of the robots have displaced workers. The 600 robots are helping to build new vehicles at the Ford Chicago Assembly plant.

The facility has 5,000 workers, and Ford says that 500 new employees were brought on specifically for the robotic system. Ford has also trained some of its veteran staff to adapt to the new […]

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

Robots Moving Into Torrence Avenue Ford Plant In Sign Of Changing Nature Of Work

CHICAGO (CBS) — Robotics can lead to greater productivity, but also disrupt what jobs look like in the 21st century. Hundreds of robots are moving into the Ford Motor Co. Chicago Assembly Plant on Torrence Avenue.

On Monday, CBS 2 Morning Insider Vince Gerasole took us inside the changing face of employment.

The real-life robots don’t look anything like R2-D2, but they are mesmerizing. After an investment of $1 billion, some 600 of the robots are now helping build new vehicles at the Torrence Avenue Ford plant.“I don’t think you’re going to find a more technical system in the world than […]

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Behind-the-scenes work on skills policy detailed in election-tinged documents

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announcing spending on the Canada Summer Jobs program in Toronto in 2016. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press) Top Canadian civil servants have been told that their departments don’t know what the jobs of the future will look like and that employers’ demands for skills will change more frequently.

The admission is in voluminous material prepared for deputy ministers as they get ready for the fall election and the prospect of a new party taking power or the Liberals’ being re-elected with new priorities.

A series of briefing notes and detailed, lengthy presentations show that much of the […]

High school students shunning summer jobs

High school students shunning summer jobs

The summer job, long an entry-level rite of passage into the working world for teenagers, is becoming obsolete.

Under pressure to bolster their college applications, more students are shunning the character-building, low-paying first job for extracurricular activities and year-round academics.

Out are summers spent perched on a lifeguard chair slathered in zinc oxide, schlepping clubs on fairways or stacking boxes in a warehouse. In are science classes, tutoring sessions or other resume-worthy pursuits, all aimed at giving students a leg up on the competition.Emblematic of that trend is Magali Ortiz, 18, a recent graduate of Northside College Prep, who spent every […]

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

‘Robotic process automation is the beginning, expect further disruption in technology and services’

White collar automation has been happening for a very long time. Robotics is a cool name for efficient software that has led to the creation of a new stream called Robotics Process Automation (RPA). RPA eliminates mundane and tedious tasks freeing workers to focus on higher value work. Since the 4-5 years of its evolution, RPA is now the buzzword for CTOs and CFOs as it delivers 30-40 percent savings and operational efficiency in the first year of adoption and continues to improve efficiencies thereafter. Some of the leading industries adopting RPA in the West are financial services, healthcare […]

The Informal IT School and UiPath launches an RPA specializing course in Cluj and Iasi

The Informal IT School and UiPath launches an RPA specializing course in Cluj and Iasi

The Informal IT school (SIIT) partners with the first Romanian unicorn, UiPath, the world leader in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enterprise software market to create an RPA course that will start this autumn in Cluj and Iasi. Entries are open on scoalainformala.ro. “Not long ago we were talking about the technologies of the future when we were talking about terms such as robots, artificial intelligence or machine learning. Here is the time to put these terms in place. UiPath has created a software ecosystem with unprecedented applicability, but especially an extra-fast learning accessibility. I think RPA is one […]

When Automation Works Alongside Humans

When Automation Works Alongside Humans

When we talk about automation, we often imagine a future in which everything we do will be almost entirely handled by machines. Cars will drive themselves. Management decisions will be handed over to an AI. Even the creative arts might one day be taken over by robots.

But for the time being, automation isn’t quite there. And so, some compromise between machine and human worker is needed. A synergy between the two has already yielded great results – just think about an autopilot guiding a plane for the majority of a flight, and human pilot intervening only for take-off […]

The future of work: Earning to live vs. living to earn

The future of work: Earning to live vs. living to earn

Government regulations will continue to play a crucial role in building an enabling environment for the intersection of free-market jobs and technology. Speakers (L to R): Ashish Dhawan, Burcu Baran, Pradeep Parameswaran, Srivatsan Rajan and Khalila Mbowe (moderator). Photolabs@ORF automation

Digital Jobs

Evolving Technology ILO Jobs Minimum Wage Raisina 2019 Technological advancements in tandem with globalisation and demographic shifts are radically transforming the fundamental nature of work, workspaces, employment relations, production processes, rights and governance. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), in two years, nearly half of all workers in the […]

Anglo American gives tech-advanced Aquila coal project green light

Anglo American gives tech-advanced Aquila coal project green light

The Aquila site. Image: Anglo American. Anglo American will extend the life of the Capcoal underground metallurgical coal operations in Central Queensland by six years after approving the Aquila project.

The company plans to spend $US226 million ($325 million) to revive the Aquila operation, which was placed under care and maintenance earlier this decade due to low coal prices.

Development of the Aquila project is set to begin in September and first longwall production is scheduled for early 2022.Anglo American claims it will be developing Aquila into one of the most technologically advanced underground mines in the world, with features such […]