Another interesting piece from the Kurzgesagt team. They are perhaps more correct than they know [or fear] Decoupling productivity from human labour. This is the key difference when it comes…
A New Renaissance? For whom?
Welcome to the slowest day of the rest of your life… A capital-intensive new renaissance ? Be careful what you wish for… Outstanding conversation led by Paul Colgan @Colgo with…
In the land of the one-armed Robot…
Perth-based Fastbrick Robotics Ltd [ ASX: FBR] today announced their highly innovative Hadrian X robot bricklayer is on target for a world-first commercial release to market this year. The Perth company…
Robots & Jobs – The Evidence
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo from The National Bureau of Economic Research at MIT in the US have just released an outstanding [in my view] working paper titled: ROBOTS AND…
Handle
Continuing the automation theme. The Boston Dynamics team introduces Handle. Doing things no robot has done before. Get used to that phrase… Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5…
Driving – Here today… ?
Truckers think automation won’t take their jobs for 40 years. Silicon Valley strongly disagrees. Who’s right? Automation and the ominously euphemistic “process removal” are challenging our understanding of what modern…
Robot Carers?
The theme of “crossed lines” is one I visit regularly. The demographic challenges facing policy makers and the specific challenges that will be bourne by younger generations are unequivocal in my view. The…
UBER for Farms?
Farming without farmers? Perhaps an exaggeration, never-the-less, automation, robotics and further commodification of essential skills places great challenges on community and policy makers alike. I admit both a personal and…