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The PBS Newshour had a segment on the automation threat to jobs this week, a good sign that the workplace revolution is becoming more widely recognized and discussed. On the down side, I’ve seen almost no debate of how the economy is supposed to work when human workers are rapidly becoming obsolete, from strawberry […] May 22nd, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, computer, immigration, job displacement, jobs taken by robots, permanent underclass, robot, smart machine, unemployment |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Martin Ford’s new book is titled “Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future” which is a subject that should be far more discussed in public. (My copy is scheduled to arrive in a few days.) The topic of systemic job loss caused by automation has been examined in some corners, […] May 16th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, jobs, jobs taken by robots, robot, smart machines, trade deals, unemployment, workers | 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 Last October, when I blogged about Orchard Supply Hardware’s new retail robots, their description gave the impression of limited functionality: Greeter Robots Are Unveiled in Hardware Stores. These days, they are called “sales assistants.” Apparently the machines are working out. Below, an OSHbot helps a customer find a desired gizmo. The smart machine costs $50,000 […] January 27th, 2015 | Category: job displacement | Tags: computer, human worker, immigration, job displacement, jobs taken by robots, robot, smart machine | Email This Post | Print This Post Many people will be ordering books and other merchandise from Amazon.com this Christmas. But few realize how robotized the company’s warehouses have become. Key is the Kiva robot system which moves shelves of appropriate items to the human who packs the order for shipment. Below, Kiva warehouse robots are wired in to a computer system […] November 30th, 2014 | Category: job displacement | Tags: automation, computerization, immigration, job displacement, jobs taken by robots, robot | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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