You’re either the one that creates the automation or you’re getting automated.
Tom Preston-Werner – Software Developer
Robots are coming. Robots and smart machines are doing a lot of our work and will do a lot more over the next year. Take a look below:
- Machineswill do 52% of worker tasks by 2025.
- Startups are re-visioning the entire food grid and food chain: food delivery services (drones), grocery stores (no people), packaging (3-D machines), and restaurants (food printing).
- VUCANs print their food at home using 3-D food printers for dry food.
- Restaurants are using 3-D printers to prepare specialized food.
- Robot can peel a head of lettuce in 27 seconds.
- Tipsy Robot bartender can make 120 cocktails per hour in Las Vegas at $12 to $16 a drink.
- Robotcan assemble a simple IKEA chair in 20 minutes, while a human takes 10 to 15 minutes to assemble the same chair (if ever).
- 5% of doctors have the same diagnosis and treatment as a machinelearning eye disease program.
- Introduction of 1 factory (industrial) robot replaces 6 workers.
- Hiring Robot can do 50,000 interviews/day for 200 client companies.
- Beijing Robotics Industry produces 100,000 robots yearly by 2020.
- Da Vinci robotic surgeons have completed 50 million human surgeries.
- Universal Robots has produced 25,000 collaborative robots (cobots), which is 60% of the market.
- 50,000 Las Vegas casino workers went on strike in 2018 demanding greater job security in part from the coming automation.
Work Lesson Earned: Best case scenario, a robot is going to be your work collaborator. Worst case, well … A few questions to think about: What can a robot do that you can’t? What can you do that a robot can’t? How will these developments impact your work/career/job? What are your work Plan B’s and contingency plans? BTW: The above robot statistics are from various issues of ‘Clocking In from MIT Technology’ – a great emagazine.