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RobohubFocus on Jobs
Robohub focus: Dealing with the ‘jobs’ question
Hallie Siegel
15 Apr 2013
For the next week, Robohub will host a special focus on robots and jobs, featuring original articles from leading experts in the fields of robotics and automation. The goal of the series is to explore...
The great equalizer: How robotics frees manufacturers from consolidating in low-wage nations
John Dulchinos
15 Apr 2013
These days it is hard to read an article about the future of robots that does not include a reference to jobs. As a pure roboticist I object to the constant connection between the two, but as a concer...
Effect of robots on jobs? Only time — and management teams — will tell
Rich Mahoney
15 Apr 2013
Although there is a surge in early stage personal and service robotics activity right now, it will take time to find out which technologies and companies will be the real winners, and only then will w...
Nate the Robot RH.4: Who wants those jobs?
Jim Haas
15 Apr 2013
This post is part of Robohub's Jobs Focus.
"People hate me because they say robots steal jobs."
"What jobs?"
"Low paid, extremely dangerous, repetitive, physically demanding..."
*boggle*
"I kno...
Do robots kill jobs?
RBI Editors
15 Apr 2013
To coincide with Robohub's Jobs Focus, we asked our panelists to weigh in on the role that robots play in the wider economy, and whether this is a good thing or a bad thing for employment numbers. Her...
Raffaello D’Andrea on “Do robots kill jobs?”
Raffaello D'Andrea
14 Apr 2013
There is no doubt that robots, and automation in general, replace humans in the work-force: all productivity-enhancing tools, by definition, result in a decrease in the number of man-hours required to...
Mark Tilden on “Do robots kill jobs?”
Mark Tilden
14 Apr 2013
Robots do kill jobs but they're crappy jobs, so good riddance. If you've ever had a job you were desperate for the money, but immediately regretted after you got it, then you know what I mean.
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Ability to do creative, non-routine work will be a must in the coming automation era. Is this realistic for most workers?
Martin Ford
13 Apr 2013
There can be no doubt that technological progress has resulted in a far more prosperous society. Technology has often disrupted entire industries and, in some cases — as with the mechanization of ag...
There is no war other than the one we are fighting with ourselves
Federico Pistono
13 Apr 2013
Just five years ago, anybody who spoke of technological unemployment was labeled a luddite, a techno-utopian, or just simply someone who doesn’t understand economics. Today things are very different...
Robots and the economy: Red herrings, or canaries in a coal mine?
Matt Beane
13 Apr 2013
Recent economic trends are perplexing. Corporate profits are up. Productivity is up. Jobs and pay for the average worker have crashed, and are recovering slower than in any other decade on record. ...
Commercial opportunities to create more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs when FAA opens airspace to UAS
Chris Mailey
12 Apr 2013
AUVSI recently released a report titled The Economic Impact of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Integration in the United States. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently has heavy restrictions on...
Jobs isn’t the issue for robotics
Andra Keay
12 Apr 2013
Well, not quite. According to Rodney Brooks, robotics has too much Steve Wozniak and not enough Steve Jobs. And perhaps that’s where the jobs part of a very full afternoon forum should have ended. X...
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment?
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment? Of course they do and there are over 50 years of data proving that to be the case....
Xconomy Forum’s final word about robots and jobs
Frank Tobe
12 Apr 2013
At the Xconomy Forum held in Palo Alto earlier this week, the focal topic was "Robots Remake the Workplace." It was expected that the jobs issue would permeate the event. Do robots take away jobs? Ins...
In agriculture robots replace job vacancies
John Payne
12 Apr 2013
It used to be that it didn’t matter how grueling the work was, so long as it was safe enough that a worker could get through the day uninjured by being careful. If the boss paid cash at the end of t...
Jobs for roboticists
Sabine Hauert
11 Apr 2013
During my Master studies in computer science, I had the opportunity to spend a year at Carnegie Mellon University in the USA. Most of my classes there were about robotics, I got to participate in Robo...
Jobs by the numbers: Economic reports on the robotics and manufacturing industries
Robohub Editors
09 Apr 2013
All the economics reports from a variety of stakeholders in one place! Don't forget to bookmark this page - we will update it as new reports become available. ...
