The technology is here, but are baseball fans ready for robo umps? Human umpires will keep their jobs, but the job will not look the same. The electronic strike zone could be one of the most significant changes to the game, according to the Bleacher Report. Throughout baseball history, players and fans trusted the eyesight […]
Monthly Archives: July 2019
20 Million Manufacturing Jobs Displaced by Machines
Machines are expected to displace about 20 million manufacturing jobs across the world. That’s according to a recent report from global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm Oxford Economics. Because of this, Amazon is helping U.S. workers stay employed in this increasingly automated economy. To do so, Amazon will spend $700 million over the next six […]
Will AI Steal Food and Fashion Jobs?
Teaching artificial intelligence how (in what order) to construct a pizza may lead to bigger things. But can a computer ever replace your favorite pizza maker? Researchers and MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute built an AI system that can look at a photo of a pizza and deduce whether the sauce, cheese, or toppings […]
RaaS: Building Security Industry Hits Automation Tipping Point
In 2017, the world employed an estimated 20 million private security officers. But, robots can perform the same work as these humans at a cost of about 30 to 65 percent less. For the building security industry, Robotics-as-a-Service (RaaS) is the biggest automation threat to human workers so far. One human managing a few remote […]