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Delivery Robot Operators Adjust to Home Environment
(David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News)
Peter Daniels is one of the millions of Americans working from home because of the coronavirus, and he watches delivery robots as they roll along sidewalks 350 miles away.
May 20, 2020As Robots Introduced to Warehousing, Workers Have to Adapt
Amazon robots move along the warehouse floor with packages before finding the proper delivery chute, transporting packages from workers to chutes that are organized by zip code, at an Amazon warehouse facility. (Ross D. Franklin/Associated Press)
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Guess who’s getting used to working with robots in their everyday lives? The very same warehouse workers once predicted to be losing their jobs to mechanical replacements.
December 30, 2019XPO Robots Assist UK Workers With Holiday Volumes
An XPO Logistics warehouse. The company says it invests about $550 million annually in innovation. (XPO Logistics)
XPO Logistics has increased its use of robots in the United Kingdom in anticipation of holiday retail volumes, the Connecticut-based company said in a Nov. 19 news release.
November 19, 2019Boeing Scuttles Use of Robots for Fuselage Work on 777, 777X Jetliners
Boeing employees perform quality checks. (Alex FLynn/Bloomberg News)
Score one for the humans. After four years of trial and error, Boeing Co. is dumping one of its most ambitious forays into automation: the robots that build two main fuselage sections for its 777 jetliners and an upgraded version known as 777X.
November 14, 2019Robots Are Hurting Pay, Fed Study Finds
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Automation has “contributed substantially” to reducing the portion of national income that goes to U.S. workers over the past two decades, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
October 1, 2019DHL Opens Chicago Innovation Center
Using Google Glass, a DHL worker remotely operates a Crown Rider Double Pallet Jack at the new Innovation Center in Chicago. (Dan Ronan/Transport Topics)
CHICAGO — Chicago’s long history as a transportation and logistics hub is one of the reasons DHL North America selected the city for its third Innovation Center worldwide. The Americas Innovation Center, which opened Sept. 12, showcases technologies that already have provided significant productivity increases.
September 12, 2019Robots Displacing Jobs Means 120 Million Workers Need Retraining
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More than 120 million workers globally will need retraining in the next three years due to artificial intelligence’s impact on jobs, according to an IBM survey.
September 6, 2019New Square Service Uses Robot Photographer to Snap Products
A camera and lighting equipment set up at Sqaure Ecom's photo studio in Brooklyn, N.Y. on July 10. (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg News)
A new service developed by Square Inc. is offering robotic product-photography. It will charge about $10 plus shipping for customers to send a product weighing less than 20 pounds to the Brooklyn studio and within two weeks, receive three digital photos from different angles.
July 22, 2019New, More Agile Robots Speed Takeover of Jobs From Humans
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Robots that can see, learn and grip different items are advancing quickly into the retail, food-and-beverage, and consumer-packaged-good industries. While deliveries of robots to the U.S. auto industry fell 12% last year, shipments to food and consumer-product companies soared 48%.
July 12, 2019Robots Taking on More Georgia Warehouse Jobs as Industry Grows
An Amazon warehouse robot. (Bess Adler/Bloomberg News)
E-commerce, growing at 15% a year, is driving a second boom in Georgia’s robust warehousing and logistics industry, which employs about 118,000 packers and material handlers across the state.
May 29, 2019