A Walmart Supercenter in Salem, New Hampshire, has been the first store to test a new kind of technology that will use robots to collect grocery items for online order fulfillment. Walmart is one of the largest companies in the world by revenue, with at least 2.3 million employees in the US, has seen rapid […]
IBM: 120 Million Workers May Need to be Reskilled or Retrained in the Next Three Years…
In the next three years, as many as 120 million workers in the world’s 12 largest economies may need to be retrained or reskilled as a result of AI and intelligent automation, according to a new IBM (NYSE: IBM) Institute for Business Value (IBV) study. In addition, only 41 percent of CEOs surveyed say that […]
Amazon Employees Hired and Fired by Robots…
Software and algorithms are used to screen, hire, assign and now terminate workers at Amazon. For lower-paid employees, the Robot Overlords Have Arrived. “Millions of low-paid workers’ lives are increasingly governed by software and algorithms. This was starkly illustrated by a report last week that Amazon.com tracks the productivity of its employees and regularly fires […]
Top 25 Fastest-Disappearing Jobs in the U.S….
If you’re searching for the perfect career Opens a New Window. or thinking about switching fields, you may want to do your homework first. While U.S. employers added 196,000 jobs Opens a New Window. in March — the 118th month of straight gains — and average hourly earnings rose by 4 cents ($27.70), that doesn’t […]
How GSA Is Helping the Government Embrace Automation…
The General Services Administration is doubling down on bots as a way to free employees from the more tedious aspects of their jobs, and it’s trying to help other agencies follow suit. On Thursday, GSA officials announced they are creating an interagency community of practice for robotic process automation, an umbrella term for tools that […]
Tech May Replace Half of All Low-Skilled Jobs in the U.S….
Ball State University sits in Muncie, Indiana, at the heart the “Rust Belt,” so educators there have the right to be pessimistic about the drift of the U.S. economy. But a report by the school’s Center for Business and Economic Research goes even further. “We found a toxic brew,” said CBER Director Michael Hicks. “Automation […]
Robots Could Replace One Million Jobs over Next 15 Years…
Millions of jobs in the UK are in jeopardy because of robots taking over various sectors of the labor market. According to the latest report on the impact of automation on the UK’s labor force, up to 10 million jobs are at risk of being replaced by machines within 15 years. Routine and/or manual jobs, […]
Meet Flippy, a Burger Grilling Robot…
Flipping burgers is a hot and greasy job. Slips, trips, burns and cuts are common hazards associated with the work. But global demand for burgers is tremendous. Top burger chains racked up more than $75.5 billion in annual sales in 2016. To help keep human cooks out of harm’s way while fulfilling our collective appetite […]
UPS Tries Arming Its Brown-Clad Drivers With an Octocopter Drone…
The world’s largest courier took a step closer to that future on Monday, launching an unmanned aerial vehicle from the roof of a UPS truck about a quarter-mile to a blueberry farm outside Tampa, Florida. The drone dropped off a package at a home on the property, and returned to the truck, which had moved […]
Robots Poised to Take over Wide Range of Military Jobs…
The wave of automation that swept away tens of thousands of American manufacturing and office jobs during the past two decades is now washing over the armed forces, putting both rear-echelon and front-line positions in jeopardy. “Just as in the civilian economy, automation will likely have a big impact on military organizations in logistics and […]