China says it has the world’s first totally robotic warehouse although the machines are made in Japan. What’s noticeable about the ‘bots is how much the little floor scooters look like knockoffs from Amazon’s Kiva machines. Often when a large company purchases a smaller one (Amazon buying Kiva for $775 million in 2012), it then […]
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October 31st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, China, immigration, Japan, Kiva robots, Mujin robots, robot, technological unemployment, warehouse, warehouse automation |  Email This Post |  Print This Post CBS found plenty of amusements at Japan’s World Robot Summit, like an automated ping-pong partner and a mechanical sniffer dog that checks for foot odor. But if you watch closely, the coming social and economic revolution can be seen. Japan is a leader in automation in part because of its slow-growing population (no immigration!), and […] October 21st, 2018 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, automation job loss, immigration, Japan, robot, technological job loss, unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post The Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (AIST), a Japanese research facility based in Tokyo, has put out a video that’s receiving a lot of attention on the internet: The Japanese are particularly positive toward automation generally, because of their lack of population growth (no immigration!) and hence fewer worker humans coming online in […] October 2nd, 2018 | Category: humanoid robots | Tags: automation, automation makes immigration obsolete, construction robot, drywall, house building, Japan, robots replacing workers, sheetrock | Email This Post | Print This Post A new robot prototype from a Japanese company looks like another step toward a completely automated warehouse, where no human workers are necessary. The machine has two arms and can pull items off a shelf and place them into a box. This robot is an advance over the Kiva warehouse system used by […] August 26th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automated warehouse, automation, employment, Japan, jobs, Kiva robot, robot, technological unemployment, warehouse robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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