A robot tax could backfire on human workers
[ad_1] Taxes targeted at firms that employ robots over human workers would be counterproductive, a new article argues — and no, it wasn't written by a robot.Why it matters: A [...]
Amazon’s new Pegasus drive robot will save workers from heavy lifting
[ad_1] Amazon relies on technology like robots to increase efficiency at its shipping centers. Ben Fox Rubin/CNET Amazon's newest helping hand is a 2-foot-tall orange robot. The Pegasus drive robot technology, [...]
As Walmart turns to robots, it’s the human workers who feel like machines
[ad_1] A Bossa Nova Robotics scanning device moves through a Walmart Supercenter in Rogers, Ark., in May 2018. (Rick T. Wilking/Getty Images) Drew Harwell National technology reporter covering artificial intelligence [...]
Running out of human workers? Better buy robots
[ad_1] The robots are coming to a field near youRecord high employment means that businesses are turning to automation – Merryn Somerset Webb asks Walter Price of the Allianz Technology [...]
Amazon games pit warehouse workers against each other
[ad_1] Amazon is turning warehouse work into a competitive game, while looking toward a future in which robots with steel talons do the labor. The e-commerce behemoth led by CEO [...]
Brexit targeted foreign workers. Now robots are coming.
[ad_1] A man walks past a garage decorated with a Saint George's Cross in Holbeach, England, on May 8, 2019. A man walks past a garage decorated with a Saint [...]
As the ports automate, longshore workers worry robots will take their jobs
[ad_1] Of the seven terminals at the Port of Long Beach TraPac is unique. That’s because from the moment a shipping container touches dry land, robots do the rest. Here, [...]
Robot butlers operated by remote workers are coming to do your chores
[ad_1] For pretty much as long as robots have existed, humans have wanted robot butlers: autonomous machines that do our bidding around the home. But our imagination exceeds our technological [...]
Bonney Lake Walmart’s robot zips along in tech revolution that’s raising big questions for workers
[ad_1] BONNEY LAKE, Pierce County — When an autonomous floor scrubber was rolled out in Walmart’s Bonney Lake store last month, shoppers mistook the teal blue scrubber zipping down the [...]
Stop & Shop, Walmart and Even Banking Are Replacing Workers with Robots — Quickly
[ad_1] Monday, April 15, 2019 GoLocalProv News Team View Larger + Stop & Shop workers on strike Longtime American jobs are disappearing — they are being replaced by robots [...]