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Ford Automotive Assembly Robots Get an Upgrade

Once upon a time, there was an implied contract between business and labor: employees supplied their energy and knowledge to build things for which companies paid them. The workers then used their wages to buy products made by business. It was a virtuous circle that made capitalism work for all concerned.

But now, the new […]

May 6th, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Pandemic Speeds Adoption of Robots by Business

The year-long Wuhan virus outbreak has been devastating for many economic sectors, but automation has come out a winner because when workers are forced by government into home imprisonment, smart machines can step in to replace the humans. Plus, business owners have developed a larger appreciation of the convenience and dependability of modern robot substitutes.

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May 5th, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Robots Continue to Encroach on Human Employment

America’s newspaper of record had an interesting item earlier this month titled “The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting.” The New York Times apparently meant to remind readers that smart machines aren’t just coming for simple manufacturing jobs, but also for the office gigs that require education.

True, it’s easier to imagine physical robots […]

March 21st, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

New Robots Are Coming to Restaurant Kitchens

Reuters reported on March 5 that “U.S. border agents detained nearly 100,000 migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in February” which means they will soon be released into the United States if they haven’t already.

Many plan on grabbing a job that should go to a US citizen, more the 10 million of whom remain unemployed […]

March 7th, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Robots Welcome the New Year with Awesome Dance Moves

Some robot companies build machines that can walk around, as opposed to those that stay put and perform precise tasks in manufacturing.

Boston Dynamics creates walk-about robots with two legs and four — both of which are good.

We humans walk around all the time and think nothing of it. But machines must be […]

January 2nd, 2021 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Discussion: How the Pandemic May Speed the Adoption of Automation

Automation is coming on strong in the economy and will take millions of jobs in the next few years because as soon as a machine becomes cheaper for an individual task than a human, the worker will be gone. In addition, business owners like how robots work 24/7 and don’t require lunch, sleep or paychecks. […]

October 20th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Coronavirus Provides Impetus for Increased Automation Now

The government’s reaction to the coronavirus of shutting down the normal economy has unsurprisingly inspired some business owners to contemplate shifting to non-human means of production by using machines that don’t get sick.

One blog stated the objective clearly in a recent headline: Coronavirus May Mean Automation Is Coming Sooner Than We Thought, SingularityHub.com, March […]

March 20th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Restaurant Robot Works for Only $3 per Hour and Doesn’t Take Breaks

Tech and business publications routinely chat up the advantages of transitioning away from human workers and into smart machines, but it’s less often that the mainstream press emphasizes the cost saving of companies switching to robots.

It’s interesting then to see a recent edition of the Los Angeles Times cite the savings to be had […]

March 1st, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Andrew Yang Ends His Presidential Campaign

As the media and other candidates awaited the results of the New Hampshire primary, candidate Andrew Yang announced he was calling it quits.

Tucker Carlson interviewed Yang last March about automation, and remarked on Tuesday that he was a “good guy personally and a serious person talking about things that actually matter and will […]

February 12th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

AI-enhanced Smart Machines and Software Will Endanger Some White-Collar Jobs

It’s certainly the case that low-skilled immigrants will not be employable in the coming automated economy when robots can perform simple tasks cheaply 24/7 with no coffee breaks.

But it’s also true that higher skilled persons won’t be needed in many fields as artificial intelligence (AI) develops more capability. Immigration in general should be dialed […]

February 8th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Smart Warehouse Robots Will Eventually Replace Most Human Workers

Robot arms are getting smart, and that’s bad news for human employees who work in warehouses. The New York Times reports that a new component-sorting machine is capable of performing tasks that formerly required a human’s intelligence and dexterity, which “raises new concerns about warehouse workers losing their jobs to automation” according to the paper.

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January 30th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

Robot Taxation Idea Is Gaining Interest

It’s always nice to see serious thought given to dealing with the automated future, when millions of jobs are forecast to be lost. The employment economy is outstanding today, but robots will be chipping away at the number of workers as the cost of smart machines decreases in coming years.

A fundamental problem with the […]

January 14th, 2020 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Email This Post Email This Post | Print This Post Print This Post

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