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The “Weird Hotel” in Sansebo still has some bugs to be solved, and the rollout was inclined to gimmicks designed to attract the sensation-seeking media, but the business does show the future. How gimmicky is it? Well, the English-speaking desk clerk is a bizarro dinosaur robot. Really. The Japanese-speaking clerk is a cutesy humanoid […] July 15th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: American workers, amnesty, automation, computers, immigration, job displacement, jobs, smart machines, software, workers |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Here’s a little intro to specific robots, each with their own abilities, based upon the writer’s visit to a robot conference. Of those, the OSHbot and Baxter have already been examined in these pages. Below, Orchard Supply Hardware (OSH) has been moving forward with a greeter robot that can also direct shoppers to desired gizmos […] May 28th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, computers, immigration, job displacement, robot | Email This Post | Print This Post We have become accustomed to seeing robots in the workplace in big industries like auto manufacturing, but most Americans work in smaller companies, so the threat of smart machine replacement for those jobs is not so great, right? Wrong. Baxter the robot, a machine introduced a couple years ago, costs around $22,000 to purchase and […] May 2nd, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, computers, Congress, immigration, job displacement, jobs taken by robots, robot, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post Senator Sessions wrote an op-ed published on Friday in the Washington Post where he called for a sane approach regarding the number of immigrants America admits. He correctly noted that the changing workplace must be taken into account. When human employees are increasingly being replaced by robots, automation and computers, then the wrong idea of […] April 10th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: aliens, automation, citizen workers, computers, Congress, demographic change, immigrant workers, job displacement, robot, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post Robots have been moving into factories and farms to perform tasks earlier done by human workers. Below, factory robots weld and assemble cars without a human in sight. But machines and software are getting smarter at a rapid rate. As automation expert Andrew McAfee notes in the video following, a lot of people now […] March 5th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, computers, immigration, Islam, job displacement, robot, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post Many factory floors can look like lonely places today, if you expect to see human workers. The assembly line designed by Henry Ford created jobs for thousands of Americans, but recently those workers have been replaced by machines. Then: Now: There’s a workplace revolution happening now from manufacturing plants to offices. A 2013 […] February 10th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, computers, Congress, immigration, job displacement, robots, workers | Email This Post | Print This Post Amazon has moved in a big way toward automating its “fulfillment centers” where customer orders are processed. It uses the Kiva warehouse system shown in a local TV report (below), in which management is just a bit too cheerful about humans working happily alongside the zippy little machines which bring items to be packed into […] February 1st, 2015 | Category: job displacement | Tags: aliens, amnesty, automation, border, computers, illegal, immigration, job displacement, Obama, robot, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post On Thursday, Bill Gates spoke at the American Enterprise Institute about his foundation’s efforts against poverty worldwide titled From Poverty to Prosperity (more details in his annual letter). Mixed into his discussion of tax policy were his observations that smart machines were coming on strong and the effects on the labor market would be profound. […] March 14th, 2014 | Category: job displacement | Tags: amnesty, automation, computers, Congress, immigration, robot, smart machines | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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