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Manufacturing jobs are finally returning to North America...for robots
With emerging-market wages catching up fast, the advantage to offshore manufacturing is dwindling. But automation threatens jobs on every continent.
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Forget Autonomous Cars—Autonomous Ships Are Almost Here
It’s midnight on the North Atlantic, where a massive container ship receives the latest weather report. There’s a nasty storm brewing ahead. Quietly, the ship changes course and speed, to skirt the worst of it and ensure an on-time arrival at its destination. The ship’s owners and the harbormaster at its next port of call are advised of the revised route. And as it nears shore, the giant ship must correct course once again, this time to steer clear of a fishing vessel off its starboard bow.
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Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity.
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How do you build a robot army?
A deep dive into building robots from scratch, and their controlling hive mind.
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$15 minimum wage isn't causing Automation
There seems to be this overwhelming rhetoric that $15 minimum wage is causing automation. However it's not. I wanted to target that issue with this video, as well discussing how we find a permenant solution for the ailments that will come with an automated economy.
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Robots won't just take our jobs – they'll make the rich even richer
Robotics and artificial intelligence will continue to improve – but without political change such as a tax, the outcome will range from bad to apocalyptic
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Why no job is safe from the rise of the robots
Hollywood got it wrong. The highly intelligent machines that will be unleashed in the near future won’t be coming for our lives. They’ll be coming for our jobs. Being rendered obsolete by technology has been a concern among the flesh-and-blood set for hundreds of years — cars put many in the horse industry out of work, for example — but the speed and types of recent advances are about to give the issue an exceptional urgency.
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‘First Robotic Bar Experience in the World’ Heads to the Las Vegas Strip
Droids are allowed at a new bar coming to the Strip this summer, built around a novelty innovation so perfect for Las Vegas, resort managers will be kicking themselves they didn’t install it first. While details are scant, the self-described "first Robotic Bar in the World" is confirmed for the Miracle Mile Shops, steps from the Planet Hollywood Resort.
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Millennials May Be the First Generation to Lose a Majority of their Jobs to Automation
The consensus of most people who study labor automation is that the total number of jobs is not going to keep up with population growth as we have seen in the past – at minimum. However, job prospects will likely get a lot worse for those between the ages of 18-34 as time goes on, mainly because of the types of jobs that are easiest to automate.
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San Francisco talks robot tax
Following the recent advice of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Supervisor Jane Kim called for a hearing Tuesday on imposing a tax on robots and automation. “We are finding that robots have begun to destroy millions of American jobs. The long predicted era of robots and automation replacing human workers has arrived,” Kim said. “We need to ensure that the massive new wealth created by automation is redirected to investing in education and training displaced workers for the jobs of the future.”
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For Manufacturing and Retail Companies, Using Automated Robots is Cheaper Than Actual Slave Labor Would Be
Automation has touched just about every aspect of our lives, whether we directly see it or not. Robots and other automated systems are clearly the wave of the future, even if it may lead to significant job losses in the next 20 years. To highlight that point, automation and robotic technology has reached a point that makes it more cost effective for companies to use mechanical workers as opposed to actual slaves.
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Automation's impact will be grave, 4 out of 10 jobs to go: Experts
Automation is the new norm across sectors and will affect the bottom of the pyramid so much so that four out of every 10 jobs globally would be lost due to this by 2021, experts say. Automation is the new normal in sectors like engineering, manufacturing, automobiles, IT and banking. As automation adoption increases, all high transaction and labour intensive jobs will take a hit.
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Automation is set to hit workers in developing countries hard
The Fourth Industrial Revolution could bring mass global unemployment. On Friday, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said he’s “not worried at all” about artificial intelligence replacing human workers because it's “50-100 more years” off. In reality, data shows this is already happening — with an estimated 38 percent of existing U.S. jobs at risk of being turned over to machines by 2030, according research from PwC. Another study put out by the University of Oxford last year had similar estimates: The researchers found that 47 percent of US jobs were at risk of automation in the next two decades.
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Robots will be the next big utility, like electricity, expert Martin Ford says
Robots and artificial intelligence are going to pose a major threat to jobs in the coming years, Martin Ford, author of "Rise of the Robots: Technology & the Jobless Future," told CNBC on Wednesday. "Machines are encroaching on the fundamental quality that has allowed us to stay ahead of technology [for centuries]," Ford said during an interview on "Power Lunch." Machines are really beginning to "think," and they're in demand, with robot sales up 27 percent in 2016, he added.
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Coal Mining Jobs Trump Would Bring Back No Longer Exist
The jobs the president alluded to — hardy miners in mazelike tunnels with picks and shovels — have become vestiges of the past.
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One San Francisco Politician Is Exploring A Tax On Robots
With fears about the job-killing effects of automation growing every day, once unthinkable ideas are starting to get an airing. A universal basic income (UBI)–where the government gives everyone enough money to live on–has lots of supporters, especially in Silicon Valley. And now some prominent individuals are calling for a tax on robots. The thinking: If you make robots more expensive, there will be more public funds to help retrain workers (or pay for that basic income)–and the higher cost might keep some companies from buying robots and quickly tanking the employment rate.
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AutoDraw by Google Creative Lab
AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool that pairs the magic of machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast.
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The Parts of America Most Susceptible to Automation
No, they’re not in the Rust Belt. By Alana Semuels.
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Lyft and Waymo Reach Deal to Collaborate on Self-Driving Cars
As the race to bring self-driving vehicles to the public intensifies, two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent players are teaming up. Waymo, the self-driving car unit that operates under Google’s parent company, has signed a deal with the ride-hailing start-up Lyft, according to two people familiar with the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. The deal calls for the companies to work together to bring autonomous vehicle technology into the mainstream through pilot projects and product development efforts, these people said. The deal was confirmed by Lyft and Waymo.
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Robots could wipe out another 6 million retail jobs
Robots have already cost millions of factory jobs across the nation. Next up could be jobs at your local stores. Between 6 million to 7.5 million existing jobs are at risk of being replaced over the course of the next 10 years by some form of automation, according to a new study this week from by financial services firm Cornerstone Capital Group.
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