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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 […]

05/29/2017 / By Russel Davis

7 million retail jobs will be lost in the coming years warns alarming report

A report by investment advisory firm Cornerstone Capital Group revealed that nearly half of all retail workers in the U.S. face job insecurity as use of automation technology continues to rise across the country. According to the report, around 16 million people in the U.S. work in the retail industry. This equates to about one […]

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 […]

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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