Automation: Robots restocking shelves in Japan
Automation is how the declining population’s labor shortage problem will be addressed: A robotics company is installing restocking robots in 300 grocery stores in Japan – and the plan is…
Demographics 43: Automation becomes essential in warehouse/distribution industry
Along with many warehouse laborers permanently leaving the field due to a multitude of factors including reskilling, pandemic-related illness and an aging workforce, the industry is also being hit with…
Panera Bread testing voice recognition tech for drive thru orders
Automation will place increasingly large roles in fast food services: Two Panera Bread locations in upstate New York are testing artificial intelligence technology that takes drive-thru orders. Source: Panera Bread…
Part 8 – Population Demographics: Fully automated restaurant eliminates labor
Fully-autonomous restaurant Mezli will open on August 28 in San Franciso. Its co-founder and CEO hopes the new robot-powered eatery will be the first of many. Source: These Stanford engineers…
Restaurants using robotic cooking systems
As I have been predicting for several years: Robots have been making their way into kitchens nationwide as the technology becomes cheaper and finding workers becomes harder. Source: Robot cooks…
Hotels seek to adopt automation, and unbundled services
Hotels look to automate check in, make requests for towels, etc, into an app or text message – generally reduce labor requirements where ever they can. Source: Behind the automation…
Chili’s restaurants adding semi-autonomous robots
Have discussed this topic many times in the past – automation is coming to the restaurant industry. Self-order kiosks, self-order apps, self-order tablets at tables, automated food preparation systems, and…
Automation in fast food delivery: Chipotle
Source: Chipotle staffing back at pre-pandemic levels, company is exploring automation, CEO says As noted here many times in the past, automation is coming to fast food. We’ve seen it…
Interesting: Starbucks/Amazon open “pick up cafes” in NY
Likely reduces labor costs a bit more, may speed up product delivery into customer hands: Starbucks is opening a pick-up cafe in midtown Manhattan with Amazon that uses the retail…
How many workers on the job at a typical fast food restaurant?
While waiting for an order to be fulfilled, I count the number of staff working at fast food restaurants, espresso cafes, and so on. In the past, there were usually…
HR resume robot scanners may be eliminating 27 million potential workers, says Harvard study
This may explain part of the “worker shortage” – much of it may be a self inflicted shortage created by automated hiring practices: Automated-hiring technology known as Applicant Tracking Systems…
Remember that shortage of software developers?
Low-code platforms allow ordinary people to develop extraordinary apps that solve everyday business problems. Source: The untapped potential of citizen developers This has been underway for quite some time as…
A year ago, I said smart phone tracing apps had numerous problems and were not suited for contact detection … then this happened
Last week, the UK contact dection phone system “pinged” one half million residents who were then forced into isolation for ten days. Even the Prime Minister, who was hospitalized for…
Executive Order on “right to repair” may have broader “ripple” effects
US President Joe Biden will soon sign an executive order that will give farmers the right to repair their own tractors, said Jen Psaki, White House Press Secretary in a…
Amazing: 2,000 robots in a grocery store system pack for customer pickup orders
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