Category: Robotics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Monday, December 04, 2017
McKinsey: Automation May Wipe Out 1/3 Of America’s Workforce By 2030 / Economics / Robotics
By: John_Mauldin
McKinsey & Co. has come out with a comprehensive report on the predicted near-future effects of automation on employment.
Entitled “Jobs Lost, Jobs Gained: Workforce Transitions in a Time of Automation,” the report takes us a big step closer to understanding the massive impacts of the transformation we are now embarked upon.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2017
Trump’s Trade War Will Trigger The Biggest Wave Of Automation in History / Politics / Robotics
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : War is coming—the signs are everywhere.
Last week, US and Chinese negotiators met in Washington to cap the 100-day dialogue that Presidents Trump and Xi promised at their April summit.
It didn’t go well.
The joint statement reported no new agreements, and both sides canceled their planned press conferences.
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Sunday, March 26, 2017
China’s Rise in Global Robotics: Toward Consolidation / Economics / Robotics
By: Dan_Steinbock
Chinese robotics is positioned for leadership in global robotics, as the emerging industry is moving toward increasing rivalry and consolidation.In the new and emerging industry, the rise of innovative robotics startups heralds the future. In 2016, almost 130 companies were funded by venture capital, including China-based RooBo, Israeli Roboteam, and German ReActive Robotics. While the most valuable deals involved unmanned aerial systems companies (read: drones), they were followed by agricultural robotics, service robots for businesses and personal use.
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Saturday, January 21, 2017
AI and Robotics - We Are All Low-Skilled Workers Now / Economics / Robotics
By: John_Mauldin
BY PATRICK WATSON : The news headlines after last week’s jobs report proved it again: Life is hard (and getting harder) for low-skilled workers. Illegal immigrants take their service industry jobs. Robots take their manufacturing industry jobs.
According to the media, many low-skilled workers have simply given up. They’re dropping out of the labor force, going on welfare, overdosing on drugs. Their lives are terrible, and everyone wants to help.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
Quantum Artificial Intelligence and ‘Humanoid’ Robots / Companies / Robotics
By: DK_Matai
Why do we spend so much time looking at our smart phone? The smart phone we carry -- Android or iPhone -- is an impressive machine, with computing speeds and storage capacities thousands of times those of desktop Personal Computers (PCs) and laptops from only a few years ago. The 'apps' we use every day are enhancing our capacity to function in the complex and truly globalised world we now encounter at work, home and play. Imagine living without that smart phone which provides an additional silicon brain? As Moore's Law climaxes, our smart watch is likely to outshine our present smart phone the way our smart phones now eclipse old PCs and laptops. Yet, there is something missing...
Friday, June 14, 2013
An Unstoppable Technology Trend for Investor Profits / Companies / Robotics
By: Investment_U
Carl Delfeld writes: One of my favorite television series as a child was The Jetsons. Its creators worked to give us their vision of life in 2062 – a full century from the show’s debut in 1962.
We’re halfway there.
But many of the gadgets in the show still seem farfetched. First to mind is the folding space car that fits neatly into a briefcase. And how about eating nothing but a pill for dinner?
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