Robot Productivity and John Maynard Keynes
More than 90 years ago, John Maynard Keynes published [...]
Self Driving Trucks
Changes that happen slowly are changes nonetheless, and a decade-long shift in over-the-road trucking from human drivers to robotic ones will have important consequences.
An exciting day
Today is the day: AHiRE announced its existence and mission [...]
Disruption in Manufacturing
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States manufacturing employment rose from 1945 to a peak of about 20 million jobs in 1980. It then dropped by about 8 million, or 40%, from 1980 to 2015 while manufacturing output almost doubled. Doubling output while reducing labor by almost half was the result of automation and robotics.