Tag: automation
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Practically human: Can smart machines do your job?
Associated Press: Practically human: Can smart machines do your job? … To better understand the impact of technology on jobs, The Associated Press analyzed employment data from 20 countries; and interviewed economists, technology experts, robot manufacturers, software developers, CEOs and workers who are competing with smarter machines. The AP found that almost all the jobs…
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The Insourcing Boom
Atlantic: The Insourcing Boom After years of offshore production, General Electric is moving much of its far-flung appliance-manufacturing operations back home. It is not alone. An exploration of the startling, sustainable, just-getting-started return of industry to the United States. … What has happened? Just five years ago, not to mention 10 or 20 years ago, the…
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Smarter Robots, With No Pesky Uprisings
Businessweek: Smarter Robots, With No Pesky Uprisings Measured against the hopes and horrors of science fiction, Baxter, a new manufacturing robot from a company called Rethink Robotics, is a huge disappointment. Although it’s got two Olympic swimmer-length arms and a set of expressive digitally rendered eyes and eyebrows, Baxter is legless and speechless. It can’t…
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Skilled Work, Without the Worker
New York Times: Skilled Work, Without the Worker DRACHTEN, the Netherlands — At the Philips Electronics factory on the coast of China, hundreds of workers use their hands and specialized tools to assemble electric shavers. That is the old way. At a sister factory here in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same…
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The Future of Manufacturing Is in America, Not China
Foreign Policy: The Future of Manufacturing Is in America, Not China How new technology is driving a U.S. industrial comeback. … But Ralph Lauren berets aside, the larger trends show that the tide has turned, and it is China's turn to worry. Many CEOs, including Dow Chemicals' Andrew Liveris, have declared their intentions to bring…
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New laws of robotics to be explored at upcoming confab
SmartPlanet: New laws of robotics to be explored at upcoming confab The pace of innovation in robotics in recent years has been stunning, with robots performing many tasks requiring some degree of human intelligence, from assembly to driving cars to flying aircraft. Robots are also interacting with humans on an increasingly sophisticated level. In fact,…
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The rise of personal robots
TED: Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots As I watched this I kept hearing this song.