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Restaurant Robot Works for Only $3 per Hour and Doesn’t Take Breaks

Tech and business publications routinely chat up the advantages of transitioning away from human workers and into smart machines, but it’s less often that the mainstream press emphasizes the cost saving of companies switching to robots.

It’s interesting then to see a recent edition of the Los Angeles Times cite the savings to be had […]

Democrat Senator Introduces Automation Protection Bill

Senator Sherrod Brown recently submitted legislation that requires employers to notify workers of new technology being implemented and provide retraining. The costs will be on the business owners which is proper since they will be saving big money by replacing humans with machines: taxpayers should not be hit with the huge costs of transitioning to […]

Automation May Eliminate 30 to 40 Million American Jobs

It’s a rare thing for the massive job loss associated with future automation to be discussed on television, but Wednesday’s coverage on Fox Business followed the Sixty Minutes report last Sunday — a two-fer in one week. But unlike CBS’ Scott Pelley, who seemed afraid to confront the idea that artificial intelligence would displace 40 […]