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08/06/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Rise of the robots: Bricklaying human labor nearly obsolete by 2020

An estimated 500,000 construction jobs will be replaced by robots by 2020, concludes a troubling analysis published by the World Economic Forum. The report claims that out of the 5.1 million jobs expected to be lost due to automation, 10 percent will be focused in the construction industry. Experts say that this may be because […]

07/11/2017 / By Russel Davis

Robot recession: Will the rise of automation force 57 MILLION American workers out of their jobs?

A recent analysis by the accounting and consulting firm PwC revealed that recent technological advances and their increased adoption may well put 38 percent of all jobs in the U.S. at high risk of automation. According to the researchers, this equates to about four in 10 human jobs being replaced by robots. The analysis also showed that the […]

05/21/2017 / By Earl Garcia

American workers beware: Robots are getting cheaper and more capable of replacing human labor

A recent report by the Robotic Industries Association (RIA) revealed that current developments designed to make robots smaller and cheaper has led to a significant increase in their sales over the previous year. According to the report, this is due in part to an increasing number of North American countries, such as U.S., Mexico and Canada, that […]

05/13/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Robot fruit pickers to put migrant agricultural laborers out of work

Some of the biggest fruit orchards in the U.S. may soon use robots in harvesting fruits, as two robotics firms are currently developing machines that could accelerate fruit picking. Mechanical harvesting has become a staple practice in many farms for crops such as wheat, corn, green beans, tomatoes and others. However, the harvesting of fragile, easily-perishable crops […]

04/13/2017 / By Rhonda Johansson

Just ONE robot eliminates SIX jobs, analysis finds… human labor rapidly becoming obsolete

Automation has led to the loss of 670,000 manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2007, confirms a new report published in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Authors of the study caution the U.S. local labor markets that this number is expected to rise as more industries transition to a more automated environment. This coincides […]

04/07/2017 / By Earl Garcia

Breakthrough brick-laying robot to put millions of brick layers out of work

New York-based Construction Robotics has developed a bricklaying robot that can build walls six times faster than a human worker. The Semi-Automated Mason 100, nicknamed Sam, can lay up to 3,000 bricks daily compared with an average builder’s capacity of only 500 bricks a day. The robot Sam is made up of various parts including a […]

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