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06/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New autonomous robot, Maverick, designed to paint walls and houses perfectly each and every time

Just because painting a wall – much less an entire house – is an arduous job doesn’t mean a robot should take over the job. But that is what a startup company called MIST has decided. An article in Digital Trends reports that they have developed an autonomous robot called Maverick that can complete a flawless […]

06/06/2018 / By David Williams

Robot takeover to result in job losses to 10,000 employees in Foxconn unit

The brunt of the artificial intelligence (AI) takeover that is widely expected to occur across the entire world is going to fall mostly on human workers – paid employees that are often found in assembly lines or certain customer-facing positions. And if you think this only applies to worker positions that could stand to be much […]

06/02/2018 / By Edsel Cook

China bank uses robots to replace tellers with the goal to eventually become completely staffless

China, a country that has no shortage of manpower, has decided to open its first ever bank branch with robot tellers instead of human ones. In an EJ Insight article, the branch in question plans to transition into a staff-less facility. To enter the robot branch of the China Construction Bank (CCB), a customer swipes […]

06/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Experts say that robotic weeders are the “future of weeding” especially for specialty crops

The latest job to be taken over by robots is also one of the oldest and hardest ever invented. Robotic weeders are starting to become a common sight at farms that cultivate specialty crops. Experts claim they are going to be the “future of weeding,” according to an American Society on Agronomy article. University of […]

05/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Japanese company reveals robot workers that will be used on various construction sites

A Japanese construction company recently debuted two designs for robot workers that could make up for the growing lack of human construction workers. In a report from The Daily Mail, these construction robots will only be working during evening hours. One of the robots demonstrated by Shimizu Corp. is already being used in several Japanese construction […]

05/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Singaporean scientists develop a robot that can assemble an IKEA chair in under 20 minutes

Many people loathe the mere idea of putting together IKEA furniture, much less actually going through the lengthy assembling process. So Singaporean researchers designed a robot that could take over the task of assembling cheap flat-packed furniture from Sweden, an article in Reuters stated. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) research team took three years to […]

12/21/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

More sales, fewer jobs: In 2017, Amazon laid off thousands of retail workers and replaced them with robots

Any time the topic comes up of using robots for logistics, warehouse workers are told there is no need to be concerned because robots cannot completely replace humans. While we’d all like to believe that’s true, the 24,000 workers who have found themselves redundant at Amazon as its robot workforce grows would surely beg to […]

09/14/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Blame the victim strategy reaches corporate level: Deutsche Bank plans to replace much of workforce with robots, because they act like robots anyway

One of the world’s biggest banks, Deutsche Bank, has announced that it will be replacing a significant portion of its workforce with robots. The financial institution, which is based in Frankfurt, Germany, employs more than 100,000 people. It is not known exactly how many people will be laid off or when, but CEO John Cryan […]

02/08/2016 / By Mike Adams

Robots will obliterate America’s middle class

In the next generation or so, highly capable robots will obliterate America’s middle class by displacing tens of millions of workers. Nearly all low-wage labor jobs will be taken over by affordable, reliable robotics systems. The unemployment masses will eventually rise up against what they see as “injustice,” and the controllers of society will unleash […]

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