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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: automation, China, coronavirus, factory, human workers, job loss, manufacturing, production, robot, service robots |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Clothing manufacturers would love to economize on production with some sort of automation, but the materials used, which vary widely in terms of thickness, stretch, slickness and other qualities do not easily fit into the robot factory. The dexterity and sensitivity of the human hand has kept sewing in the human realm except for simple […] July 23rd, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, clothing manufacturing, factory, garment, immigration, job displacement, production, robots, sewing robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post A new automation report has been published and it tackles the measurement of a vital trend, namely the amount of robotization that has already occurred. As has been noted here, in 2013 the Associated Press published a series documenting how the Great Recession had prompted many businesses to invest in technology, thereby killing middle-class jobs […] March 29th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, factory, job displacement, jobs, manufacturing, Obama, robot, smart machine | Email This Post | Print This Post On Monday a young man was killed by a robot he was installing in a Volkswagen factory in Baunatal Germany. Reports say the machine grabbed and smashed him as he was assembling the robot for a new electric motor production line. Below, robots construct Volkswagens in a German factory. This tragic accident violates the […] July 1st, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, factory, immigration, job displacement, jobs, manufacturing, robot, smart machines, unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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