Automation – unfolding blessing or curse
Automations means applying a wide range of technology for reducing human roles in production. At the emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the looming job loss threat from automation is…
Automation
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Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs: for smarter understanding, strategy, and policy
Deciphering Robots, Automation, and Jobs attempts to shed light on non-conclusive ongoing discourse: future of work or jobs. In fact, technology has multi-dimensional effects on jobs. The net effect on…
Survival and Growth Amid Automation
For survival, automation is a blessing and also a curse. Automation has been a great help to cope up with wage increases and labor shortages. Job simplification out of automation…
Automation and Robotics Blocking Upskilling
Upskilling is a conventional means for increasing employability and salary. Through on-job training and experience, people keep upskilling themselves. Hence, they deserve a salary increase every year. This appears to…
AI Impedes Fourth Industrial Revolution
An industrial revolution unfolds as a series of waves of Creative Destruction. An emerging wave is supposed to offer better alternatives to existing products, often at less cost. New technology…
Robots take over Jobs—which hands to prevent them?
Robots are posing a threat to take over our jobs. Will our hands prevent or slow down them? In fact, along with many other organs, we use our hands to…
Dull Jobs for Human—Dead Robots Redefine Future of Work
The future of work is a concern. Of course, we want jobs to earn a living and to make a contribution. We also want jobs that are not dull, dirty,…
Artificially Intelligent Robots–stretching human-machine frontier
Artificially intelligent robots have human-like sensing, perceiving, learning, and decision-making abilities, and they are able to deal with variations. They are no longer known for dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs.…
Seesaw Play of Humanoid Robots—will it keep continuing?
Recorded history tells that since 250 BC, human beings are after building Humanoid robots. Why are people after human-like creatures? It’s often due to the urge of Getting jobs done…
Sophia Robot—does it offer a misleading impression?
Sophia Robot is an artificially intelligent Humanoid robot with citizenship. Many dignitaries of the world have become excited upon talking to and listening to her smart human-like responses. Among her…
Innate Abilities Stall Humanoid–ASIMO Bows Out
At the peak of ingenuity, the human race is apprehensive with the sense of sinister in robots. A group is predicting that robots will jeopardize jobs across the globe. Consequently,…
ASIMO Robot — ends lifecycle before causing creative destruction
ASIMO robot is a highly sophisticated Humanoid robot developed by Honda. A team of engineers conducted R&D over 32 years at a cost of $500 to develop and demonstrate human-like…