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Robot Farm Machines Advance in Skills
The image of illegal aliens in agriculture persists, since they occupy 53 percent of farm labor, but in the near future we may be seeing fewer of them. The reason: robots and automation are replacing...
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Hotel Robot Butler Automates Room Service Delivery
Count bellhop as another human job on the way to obsolescence because of robotics. Simple butler functions can be done by a mobile smart machine which can deliver requested items to hotel rooms....
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West Coast Ports Plan Robot Replacement of Human Workers
When globalization was being pitched some years back by economic elites, they admitted outsourcing would send millions of jobs overseas to cheap-labor nations like Red China, but at least there will be...
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Amazon.com Robots Are in Place to Process Christmas Orders
Many people will be ordering books and other merchandise from Amazon.com this Christmas. But few realize how robotized the company’s warehouses have become. Key is the Kiva robot system which moves...
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Robots Get Smarter in the Workplace
Tuesday’s New York Times included a front-page story titled “Smarter Robots Move Deeper Into Workplace” which described the continuing improvement of technology that allows intelligent machines to...
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Minimum Wage Convinces Companies to Replace Humans with Machines
On Saturday, Fox News’ financial show Bulls & Bears discussed how laws for the minimum wage have had the unfortunate effect on workers of spurring more rapid automation. The financial talking heads...
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Railroads Push for One-worker Train Operation, with Remote Control to Follow
When I was a kid in the last century, one of my father’s best friends worked as a fireman on the Erie Railroad (even though diesel engines did not require a man shoveling coal to keep the train...
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Another Job Headed for Roboticized Oblivion: Co-Pilot
The report says the contract calls for “an automated assistant” that can fly the plane, so essentially a co-pilot. Presumably the pilot will be jettisoned as well a few years later. That innovation...
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Ten Human Jobs Soon to Be Automated Are Mainstream Employment
There are numerous lists of jobs being made obsolete by automation sorted by expertise level (e.g. blue collar, financial, medical) and also by skill type, such as in the chart below: Today’s item...
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Martin Ford Interview: What to Do about Robots Taking Jobs
Martin Ford, the author of Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, visited Australia recently for some speaking and media appearances. In a radio interview, he made the point...
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