The Benefits Of Robotics

There will not be fewer jobs, because every individual will have access to a robot as mentioned earlier, although success will not from simply owning a robot but working with the robot in order to innovate ,”Our human assignment will be to keep making

In today’s America, with robots on the rise, many people are feeling as if machines are threatening their jobs, and therefore their income, way of life, and basic stability. This is not an unreasonable fear. In 2013, Carl Frey and Michael Osborne with the University of Oxford predicted at as many as half the jobs in the United States could be automated within the next twenty years (Frey and Osborne). Even in the 1930s, economists such as John Maynard Keynes, the creator of Keynesian economics, predicted that technological developments could create economic climate that allows for a 15-hour work week with plenty of free time for the average American worker by the year 2030 (Thompson). The American workforce is shifting towards this prediction

In the essay “Better than Human” Kevin Kelly states his thesis hat robots will someday replace humans in the work place. Kelly starts by explaining how the Industrial Revolution has changed the way manual labor is performed as a result of automation; replacing humans with machines. Kelly says that the increasing demand for automation, artificial intelligence has given machines the ability to manage tasks from “manual labor to knowledge work.” (300) Kelly then says that robots will begin to replace blue and white collar jobs such as, assembly, heavy lifting, analytical, and medical applications. Kelly explains the innovative breakthrough named Baxter, a robot typically made for industrial applications

We think of computers as being incredibly intelligent now, but actually in terms of brain power an average computer today has the intelligence of a mouse. According to Moore’s Law, computing power doubles every 18 months. In other words, it increases at an extreme rate. The rapid pace of change brings fear into the eye of a technophobe and some of today’s most eminent scientists are now warning that the evolution of technology may spell the end of humankind. Even now, the greatest threat to job creation is the increasing reliance on robotics in industrial factories. Jobs that have traditionally provided a living for millions of people are quickly being turned over to a highly efficient and cost-effective robotic

In an age where technology is so advanced that robots replace humans in the workplace, it is no surprise that increasingly fewer Americans are considered full-time employees. While proponents of advancement argue that technology adds a high level job for every low level job it takes away, low class manufacturing jobs will not be the only newly-automated jobs. Due to rapid advancement, computers are projected to be one thousand times more powerful in the 2030s than computers today (McChesney and Nichols, 2016, 246). With these improvements, no human’s job is safe.

Searching for a job can be very stressful when someone is not the right candidate for the job they are applying for. Many Americans look for jobs each day and still no one will call them and say, “Hey Daphne you’re hired.’’ Being unemployed without a job can be a big stress when individuals have a family to feed and bills to pay. “With the unemployment rate falling to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, policy makers are heaving a sigh of relief” (VentureBeat). Most of us are still jobless because nowadays they are replacing computers to do the work for them instead of hiring someone without a job. ‘’Robots have largely been seen as machines that perform routine, repetitive, cognitive actions. However, machines are already replicating human capabilities” (VentureBeat). For example, if anyone goes to Walmart and target they have self-check out

Compared to last century, workers in manufacturing jobs feel more threatened by automation than ever before. While the number of jobs eliminated by automation continues to increase, employers are also less willing to create jobs. In the article "Special report: Automation puts jobs in peril," Nathan Bomey, a business reporter for USA Today, explores the current position of manufacturing workers. In the article, Bomey explains how, "about 58% of CEOs plan to cut jobs over the next five years because of robotics, while 16% say they plan to hire more people because of robotics" (3). Only the United States Government has the power to create a solution to the quandary of workers affected by the switch to technology in the workforce.

90,000 jobs were developed in robotics but 300,000 workers lost jobs. New technologies affect workers need for training and more education. For instance, employees need to gain new skills constantly to keep up with the ever-changing technical world of work. Last, even though computer-engineering jobs are supposed to be one of the quickest expanding jobs, the total number of jobs available will be low in the future (Hodson & Sullivan, 2012). Of course, there are people gaining jobs due to technology.

At the rate that machines and technology are improving, most people will not have to have jobs. There will still need to be some human supervision of everyday production of machines. There will also have to be maintenance when a machine breaks, and that requires a trained human. People will also have to have jobs in programming these machines, as they cannot program themselves. Machines will eventually eliminate most people’s jobs, however, there will always be a small portion of people required to supervise them.

There have been many rapid technological advancements in the modern 21St Century, one of which are the Robots. Robots are human build machines which can perform various different types of complex tasks, in which a single human might not be able to do. Many of the modern companies are benefiting from this technological advancement, such as Amazon using robots to do their heavy lifting tasks rather than having to hire several humans to do that same task, in which Amazon saves a lot of money by having to buy one robot instead of hiring several humans. There has been an ongoing debate on whether robots are destroying our jobs or making our jobs safer and easier by doing all the heavy lifting and labor work. In the article “Amazon’s Robots: Job

Kelly claims that “no matter what your current job or your salary, you will progress through these Seven Stages of Robot Replacement…” (311), beginning with denial that a robot could do our jobs, then slowly accepting that these machines are capable of our everyday tasks, and more. Kelly thinks we will believe that we are needed when the machine breaks down, but the technology is apparently “flawless.” After figuring out that this technology can do our old jobs better than we can, we realize that we did not like our job and we are much happier now that we have moved on from “our old boring job.” What Kelly fails to realize is that several people do not detest their jobs, and robots cannot do every job that humans can do. Some jobs, including social work and criminal investigation, cannot solely be done by machines.

This is a subject that need a whole lot more than the conclusion on one article to answer. So, I will have to give a quick review of how Jacque Fresco (the "futurist" who first came up this concept) outlined this transition happening in his book The Venus Project: The Redesign of a Culture. He accurately states that we are at a level of technology to no longer need remedial jobs and that robotics and other technology can currently replace them. Coincidentally, robotics replacing human workers has happened for decades and will continue. He states that in a money-less World people being replaced by robots in the workplace is a good thinking because it frees up the person to do the things it loves. After all, I have never heard anyone argue that the purpose of life is to do spend 40+ hours a week doing remedial tasks that you hate, all so you can receive worthless paper. Furthermore, Fresco explains is very thought out system that utilizes the most efficient way to use the world researches and technology, so we

Over time our lives seem to have become more and more integrated with our technology. Some may say that this is a very bad thing because this change may result in the loss of jobs for millions of people. Jobs such as, cashiers, bankers, legal assistants, and maybe even taxi drivers. The future may appear bleak at first, but the truth of the matter is that robots taking over our simple and automatable jobs just mean that our jobs can evolve with the technology. A very similar thing happened during the industrial revolution when technologies were developed that massively increased the efficiency and yield of farming. This in turn led to a vast increase of food in the country which led to a lesser need for everyone to be a farmer. With a massive amount of food, former farm workers, and advanced technology, a business of mass production and manufacturing began. The loss of jobs due to technology led to a

Since the industrial revolution, automation in workplaces has steadily increased. However, with a sudden boom of technological advances, people have created machines that can perform tasks more efficiently - and arguably better - than humans. Because millennials, defined by the United States Census Bureau as the generation born between 1982 and 2000 (United States Census Bureau, 2017), either just entered into the workforce or will first be entering the workforce in the next couple years, they seem the most vulnerable to automation taking over their jobs. Mark Zuckerberg, entrepreneur and founder of Facebook, said “[the millennial] generation will have to deal with tens of millions of jobs replaced by automation like self-driving cars and trucks” (Zuckerberg, 2017). Danielle Paquette, journalist for the Washington Post, believes that no single job is safe from automation; “every job has some component a robot could theoretically handle” (Paquette 2017). Both of the previous statements create a question about how automation will affect the un- and underemployment of the millennial generation. The risk of either un- or underemployment for millennials depends largely on the type of job, as well as each a person’s degrees and other qualifications. By delving into the problem of automation in workplaces, maybe people can find a way to make the benefits of automation outweigh the consequences.

If you think robots are the kind of thing you hear about in science-fiction movies, think again. Right now, all over the world, robots are performing thousands of tasks. They are probing our solar system for signs of life, building cars at the General Motors plants, assembling Oreo cookies for Nabisco and defusing bombs for the SWAT team. As they grow tougher, more mobile, and more intelligent, today’s robots are doing more and more of the things that humans can’t or don’t want to do and in many cases taking away the need for human labor.