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Amazon has presented its re:MARS conference in Las Vegas over the last few days, discussing new tech advances in robotics, AI and other topics. For example, actor Robert Downey Jr. announced a project to clean up the environment using robots which he thinks could largely do the job within ten years or so. Jeff Bezos […] June 6th, 2019 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, Jeff Bezos, Kiva robot, re:MARS, Robert Downey Jr., robot hand, smart machine, warehouse, warehouse robot |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Wired’s video below, sketching out the automated future vis-a-vis jobs, uses the idea that smart machines are helpful collaborative robots, or “co-bots” that allow humans to work more efficiently. But that relationship will end when the machines become able to replicate human abilities and perform them far more cheaply. One of the bumps along […] May 26th, 2017 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon Robotic Challenge, Amazon robots, automation, immigration, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, technological unemployment | Email This Post | Print This Post Cyber Monday is a major business story because it is the biggest online shopping day of the year. As a result, many news outlets sent reporters to one of the 13 Amazon “fulfillment centers” around the country where consumer orders are processed, filled and shipped. The sight of items zooming by on speedy conveyor belts […] November 30th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: Amazon, automation, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, smart machine | Email This Post | Print This Post Christmas is coming, and the online shopping megastore is revving up to send packages even faster by increasing the number of robot warehouse transporters from 15,000 at the end of last year to 30,000 now in its 13 “fulfillment centers.” The company believes that more of the amazing Kiva robots will enable it to ship […] October 30th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, immigration, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, smart machine, warehouse robot | 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 It’s not just the first world where smart machines are taking over jobs that humans recently performed: Mexico’s Constellation brewery is “fully automated” and employs only six human workers per shift. One variety of the machines is a laser-guided vehicle that moves pallets of beer and materials around the factory, replacing forklifts driven by people. […] June 15th, 2015 | Category: replacing workers with smart machines | Tags: automation, job displacement, Kiva robot, robot, smart machine, unemployment, workers | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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