Robot Invasion Hit a Bump in 2023 as North American Economy Cooled February 13, 2024 By Timothy Aeppel North American companies ordered about a third fewer robots last year as worries about a slowing economy and higher interest...
COVID-19 Crisis Accelerates Labor Shift from Humans to Robots: WEF Survey October 21, 2020 Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the COVID-19 pandemic...
Robots Gain as Pandemic Lockdowns, Safety Issues Cause Factories to Automate July 21, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh While a resurgence in coronavirus cases in Texas has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, eight robots have kept...
Companies Continue March Towards Robots; Orders Up 7.2% in First Half of Year August 20, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson In the first half of 2019, the North American robotics market is up 7.2%. From January to June, North American...
2018 Was Big Year for Robot Employment February 28, 2019 U.S. companies installed more robots last year than ever before, as cheaper and more flexible machines put them within reach...
Report Warns of Robots Taking Restaurant, Trucking, Clerical Jobs January 28, 2019 By Matt O'Brien Robots aren’t replacing everyone, but a quarter of U.S. jobs will be severely disrupted as artificial intelligence accelerates the automation...
Robots Haven’t Eliminated Many Jobs – So Far: World Bank January 3, 2019 By Natalia Drozdiak The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank...
Will Robots Take Your Job? It Depends on Where You Live: OECD September 20, 2018 By William Horobin Will robots take your job? The answer depends on where you live. The threat varies “strikingly” between countries and regions,...
Robots Portend Grim Future for Working Class: Viewpoint July 6, 2018 By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the world wide web, once declared: “The spread of computers...
How One German Company Is Making Workplace Robots Safer for Humans September 18, 2017 By Oliver Sachgau Two years ago, a robot crushed a 22-year-old man to death at a Volkswagen AG factory in Germany after the...