by dankeelan | Jan 16, 2024 | Automation, Jobs, Robots, Unions
Rising labor costs for U.S. automakers are sowing the seeds for deeper investment in automation after settlements last year to end a month of strikes at car plants across the country saw automakers agree to large wage increases for American auto workers. The Big...
by dankeelan | Jan 9, 2024 | Robots
Don’t be surprised if your next meal is served to you by a robot. While they’re not taking over completely, robots are starting to pop up as restaurants and businesses strive to work smarter, not harder. In 2021, a Dallas restaurant introduced a robot,...
by dankeelan | Nov 21, 2023 | Jobs, Robots
Recently, United Parcel Service Inc. opened its biggest warehouse, a sprawling 20-acre complex outside of Louisville, Kentucky. By the end of the next year, the massive package handling company intends to outfit the $79 million facility with over 3,000 robots to do...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2023 | Jobs, Robots
Robots, in our collective imagination, are objects of fascination and fear. While our inner 5-year-olds marvel at the thought of Transformers or C-3PO in real life, the adult side of us fret over concerns about how robots might affect — or even replace — human jobs....
by dankeelan | Sep 26, 2023 | Jobs, Robots
There is a lot to be said for replacing certain kinds of jobs with robots. Most people would agree that replacing physical human labor with automation is a good thing. It’s especially good to automate the dangerous kinds of labor like some facets of factory work. What...
by dankeelan | Aug 1, 2023 | Future of Work, Robots
A humanoid warehouse worker, Digit walked upright on goatlike legs and grabbed bins off a shelf with muscular arms made from aerospace-grade aluminum. It then placed the boxes on an assembly line and walked back to the shelf to search for more. The crowd, which had...
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