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Hardhat bots take over construction sites
Oliver Mitchell
02 May 2017
RobotLabNYC’s third installment will be on June 13, in New York City with Howard Morgan (FirstRound Capital) and Tom Ryden (MassRobotics); together, we will be “Exploring The Autonomous Future...
The robot industry is hiring. Do you have the skills?
Hallie Siegel
10 Apr 2017
A new white paper by the Robotics Industries Association (RIA) says that as many as 2 million US manufacturing jobs will go unfilled in the next ten years due to a lack of skilled workers. According t...
The Robot Economy: Interview with MEP Mady Delvaux
SPARC
08 Oct 2016
In our final interview in The Robot Economy series, we speak with Mady Delvaux, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and Chair of the Working Group on robotics. Mady has written an extensive draft ...
The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Manning
SPARC
27 Sep 2016
In today’s interview, we sat down with Alan Manning, Professor of Labour Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a leading author in his field, particularly in understanding the imperfect...
The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Winfield
SPARC
24 Aug 2016
Robots and their impact on the economy is on the forefront of everyone’s mind. Will robots increase productivity and jobs, improve society, and will wealth be shared? To address this question, we’...
What coachmen from the 1920s can tell us about robots and jobs
Vincenzo Spiezia
16 Aug 2016
To many workers, the words “digital technologies” may evoke one simple, dismaying image: a human-like robot sitting at their desk, doing the work that they used to do! This anxiety is not differen...
‘Rise of the Robots’ receives Business Book of the Year award
Frank Tobe
23 Nov 2015
One of our choices for your summer reading -- Martin Ford's 'Rise of the Robots' -- won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year award at a ceremony held last week in New York. ...
6 predictions, 9 stocks, a revolution, an apocalypse, and killer robots – oh my!
Frank Tobe
11 Nov 2015
A new 300-page research report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Robot Revolution – Global Robot & AI Primer, and to a lesser extent BSG's report: Man and Machine in Industry 4.0, make for in...
Video describes accelerating robot deployment in China
Frank Tobe
27 Apr 2015
In response to rising labor costs combined with a shortage of workers, China has begun to provide incentives to encourage businesses to utilize robots to replace factory workers....
The future of work: Robots, unions and globalization
Frank Tobe
08 Apr 2015
Last week Bloomberg News asked the question: What's destroying middle-class wages? and suggested three hypotheses: robots, unions and China.
This week SingularityHUB launched a series exploring th...
‘Robots or jobs’ is key focus of #ERF2015
Adriana Hamacher
12 Mar 2015
The importance of allaying public fears that robots will create mass unemployment was the theme of the opening session at the 2015 European Robotics Forum (ERF), which kicked off in Vienna on Tuesday....
Maybe we need an automation tax
Alan Winfield
18 Feb 2015
Imagine that a large company decides to significantly increase the level of automation at one of its facilities. A facility that currently employs a substantial number of men and women doing relativel...
Obama connects robots to jobs in State of the Union address
Hallie Siegel
22 Jan 2015
US President Barack Obama linked robots and jobs in his sixth State of the Union address this Tuesday. The State of the Union Address is usually delivered annually by the President in a joint sessio...
Robots are not here to take your jobs | USA Today
Hallie Siegel
15 Oct 2014
Robots are not here to steal our jobs, nor are we at risk of any other en masse robotic movement reliant upon self-determined mechanized cognizance.
In fact, nearly 100% of contemporary robotic tec...
What does the second machine age mean for our jobs? | Erik Brynjolfsson via World Economic Forum Blog
Hallie Siegel
08 Sep 2014
http://youtu.be/7UmGl-FDJ3s
If the first industrial revolution was about creating more effective power systems, such as the steam engine, then this time around the focus is on mental tasks, says Prof...
Reader poll: Will autonomous cars create more jobs than they displace?
Open Roboethics Initiative
03 Sep 2014
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we’ve seen a lot of discussions on the topic o...
The cyborg workforce | GE Reports
Hallie Siegel
25 Aug 2014
A 2014 study from RobotEnomics suggests that implementing industrial robotics can increase a firm’s number of human employees. The EU recently invested €2.8bn in robotics research. The goal: boost...
In the future, will only robots celebrate Labor Day? | Forbes
Hallie Siegel
25 Aug 2014
What is different about the virtual robot revolution is not that jobs will be displaced in the short term, but that the robots (or algorithms) will do something different. They will amplify and not ...
Finally somebody debunks the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs” report
Frank Tobe
25 Aug 2014
Kudos to Erik Sofge, Boston-based reporter for Popular Science Magazine. His recent story, "Sex Bots, Robo-Maids, and other Sci-Fi Myths of the Coming Robot Economy," cleverly pokes holes wh...
Experts have no idea if robots will steal your job | Harvard Business Review
Hallie Siegel
18 Aug 2014
Experts disagree about the future. That might seem unextraordinary, but it’s the conclusion of a new survey on robots from Pew, and it’s more significant than it sounds. For all the talk of “ro...
Four recent videos about robots and jobs
Hallie Siegel
14 Aug 2014
Are robots coming for your job, or are they going to make your job easier? We've been following this issue since we ran our Robots and Jobs focus series, and there is no doubt that it's a topic that'...
AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center
Hallie Siegel
11 Aug 2014
This report covers experts’ views about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and their impact on jobs and employment.
The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the ...
Should we let robots take our jobs? | DNews
John Payne
13 Jul 2014
“In a recent interview, the co-founder of Google discussed how he thinks people shouldn't work so much, and we start having robots do most of the work! Should robots be taking our jobs? Laci dis...
Keeping jobs in-country | NY Times
Frank Tobe
01 Jul 2014
One of robotics' most colorful proponents is Drew Greenblatt, President of Marlin Steel. In a recent NY Times article he vividly describes how he has used robots to automate ...
Migration from Mexico to U.S. is tapering off. How does this impact farmers?
Frank Tobe
26 Jun 2014
A recent newsletter from Harvest Automation, the start-up company that produces robots that move potted plants at nurseries and greenhouses, cites two very revealing trends regarding migrant workers....
Taxes pay for robots, but robots don’t pay taxes | The Globe and Mail
Hallie Siegel
14 Apr 2014
It used to be that governments could justify auto industry handouts on the basis of the steady stream of tax revenues they would pocket from all those workers hired to assemble cars. But labour is a s...
Automation, not domination: How robots will take over our world
The first question people tend to ask when they find out you are a roboticist is, “When are robots going to take over the world and become our masters?” The answer to this question is a big “Ne...
The fate of jobs in relation to robotics is confusing
Frank Tobe
10 Feb 2014
Will a robot take your job? Will a higher minimum wage cause job destruction? Or is it all media hype? What's the truth?...
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...
Robots on TV
Frank Tobe
04 Feb 2013
Verizon and GE have produced television advertisements that include robots. The ads are playing frequently and nationally. They are good, they're being talked about and tweeted, audiences like them, a...
John Markoff distills views regarding robots causing unemployment
John Payne
27 Jan 2013
John Markoff, senior writer for The New York Times, questioned a number of attendees at Automate 2013, regarding the recent 60 Minutes segment and the general concern over an increase in the use of ro...
