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How lockdown is changing shopping for good
Big online stores like Amazon or Ocado are based around vast automated warehouses. Smaller and cheaper versions of this tech will be key if smaller stores are to survive through a series of lockdowns during the pandemic.
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Get Ready For Slaughterhouse Robots To Ease America's Meat Processing Crisis
America's meat processing crisis, mainly triggered by labor shortages and plant closings due to coronavirus spread, is set to unleash a new wave of automation across plants to ease labor and health woes. Bloomberg Law reports JBS SA, the world's largest meat producer, is preparing to install robots in slaughterhouses to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 among human employees working on the production line.
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How COVID-19 will push for an even more aggressive automation
The COVID-19 outbreak is becoming a global stress test. As the number of people infected with the virus continues to rise around the world, uncertainties about global economic growth increase. The virus will have a far-reaching impact on the capacity layout, production and supply chain network of many enterprises. In an effort to stem the virus’s spread, large swaths of the workforce are retreating into their homes to work remotely.
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Automated trucking, a technical milestone that could disrupt hundreds of thousands of jobs, hits the road
Companies are already testing driverless trucks on America's roads. The technology will bring untold profits, but it may cost thousands of truckers their livelihoods.
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Outsource or Automate? How to Strategically Take Tasks Off Your Plate
Delegation is an essential leadership skill. However, leaders have to delegate correctly. Done right, delegating work should be carefully thought out with an eye toward the future.
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The future of software testing in 2020: Here’s what’s coming
Artificial intelligence and machine learning aren’t the only changes to expect in QA, but they’re a big part of it.
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An RPA Newsletter - Contrarian and Optimistic
RPA Tools attracts the highest concentration of RPA enthusiasts and business technology executives with unparalleled peer insight and expertise on automation, efficiency, and culture. Our readers gain key insights on self-awareness and confidence.
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Opinion: Automation is likely to eliminate nearly half our jobs in the next 25 years. Here's what to do
A recent study from Oxford University estimated that as many as 47% of the jobs in developed nations will vanish in the next 25 years as a result of automation. These losses will be in both white- and blue-collar jobs. As a nation, we are completely unprepared for the upheaval this will create.
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U.S. companies facing worker shortage race to automate
U.S. companies are responding to the lowest unemployment rate in almost 50 years by increasing their focus on automation in order to maintain healthy margins as labor costs tick higher, a Reuters analysis of corporate earnings transcripts shows.
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Automation to replace every job under the sun, eventually
Human-like decision-making robots, which can learn different skills, will in future take over every human task imaginable, says a robotics expert.
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UK wages flatline as robots take skilled jobs, pushing workers into low-paid roles
Wages are flatlining because companies are scrapping swathes of mid-tier positions – replacing them with algorithms and cheap offshore labour, according to a new report. White-collar recruitment specialist Hays found that with jobs like paralegal work and administration, new technology is making these roles redundant, leaving over-qualified professionals working in lower-tier positions instead.
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Why Fast Food Is the Ticking Time Bomb of Job Automation
On Tuesday, the automation-focused meme candidate Andrew Yang tweeted, “Fast food may be first.” He was commenting on a new CNBC report that reported annual employee turnover rates of 100 percent at the Panera Bread chain—a figure that is low for the fast food industry, which can see annual turnover of up to 150 percent. Those figures may seem ridiculous, but they’re a reality:
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Elon Musk: 'A.I. will make jobs kind of pointless' — so study this
Elon Musk may be a strong proponent of all things tech. But he’s far from positive on its implications for the jobs market. In fact, the Tesla CEO says one of tech’s great developments — artificial intelligence — could spell the end of many jobs altogether. “AI will make jobs kind of pointless,” Musk said Thursday, speaking alongside Alibaba’s founder Jack Ma at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.
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How to Compete With Technology in the Age of Automation
It's all about staying in demand in the workplace.
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Global Manufacturing Company
Integrated Micro-Electronics Inc., or more commonly known as IMI, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ayala Corporation, and is the manufacturing portfolio of AC Industrial Technology Holdings, Inc.
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Robotic Process Automation: An Amazing Technology and Equally Amazing Career! - MVA Blog
RPA – Robotic Process Automation courses are enriched with enlightenment on data manipulating, trigger responses, initiating new actions. MVA offers in-depth enlightenment on the RPA technology
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If your job is 'boring and repetitive' watch out: You run the risk of being replaced by robots
Certain people will feel the pain of automation more acutely than others, according to a report by the Brookings Institution.
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A laksa-making robot chef prepares the dish in just 45 seconds
Singapore—Looks like satisfying your laksa craving is about to get quicker and easier. Last Friday (July 4), the Neo Group catering company announced its newest addition to the crew: a robot that makes laksa in 45 seconds.
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Why Andrew Yang Says Automation Is a Threat to the Country
The entrepreneur and former tech executive discussed automation during the Democratic presidential debate. Here’s some background.
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Robots 'to replace 20 million factory jobs'
Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world could be replaced by robots by 2030, according to analysis firm Oxford Economics. People displaced from those jobs are likely to find that comparable roles in the services sector have also been squeezed by automation, the firm said. However, increasing automation will also boost jobs and economic growth, it added.
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