Automation: Window Washing Robot Starts Work on High Rise Building
Amid the labor shortage, partially caused by the fertility rate decline, automated window washing robots replace workers.
Business: Just 10% of McDonald’s customers eat in the dining room
Customers are no longer eating "in" at fast food places-everything is now to-go.
Automation: Oregon restaurant’s robot food system confuses some
Robotic waiter ‘Plato’ divides small Oregon town: Some restaurant customers recoil, and others ask if they are supposed to tip it | Daily Mail Online I’ve written many posts about…
Automation: AI will impact many jobs
From improving efficiency (meaning fewer workers to accomplish the same quantity of work output), or eliminating jobs all together, AI-based technology will have large impacts on labor. This is how,…
Automation: Hotel self check in
This was not the first hotel self check in that I have used – but this one was fully digital. You enter your confirmation number and last name to confirm…
Automation: White collar jobs are at risk of big change if not outright elimination, due to AI and automation
“People used to say that the robots are going to destroy skilled labor. Well, not really. I haven’t seen any plumbing robots. I haven’t seen any electrician robots. And I…
Automation: “Digital dining” take out orders ending fast food dining rooms?
McDonald’s and other fast food and fast casual giants are betting on the “digital kitchen” — sleek, compact stores that harness automation and digitalization to have diners ordering through mobile…
Automation: Google says their AI can soon replace software engineers
Google can now see a time when coding is automated and human programmers “solve harder challenges.” Source: Google now sees a time when coding will be automated, rolls out AlphaCode…
Demographics, Automation: Drone deliveries to homes and businesses
A US startup has won permission to fly drones over people and beyond the view of their operators in New Zealand, a key regulatory step that could help open the…
Drones: “Amazon’s Drone Delivery Dream Is Crashing”
Amazon announced its drone delivery system was in development, back in 2013, saying it had been in development for some time. Ten years later, they have been unable, so far,…