Robots for hire by the hour - This robot employment agency is taking over human jobs
This robot
employment agency is taking over human jobs
An Israeli robotics company and a Japanese
Honda Motor (HMC) affiliate are teaming up to roll out
AI-controlled robots that companies can hire by the hour. And the robotics
entrepreneur behind the endeavor says technology is advancing so rapidly, these
devices can take over some complicated tasks from workers.
“The big leapfrog here is that our robots have some
intelligence, which means they can actually do a job that is more versatile,
and in a much closer way to a human,” Ran Poliakine, SixAI Founder &
Chairman, told Yahoo Finance’s “The
Ticker.”
“I think following the very long R&D process, we've proven
that our robots are as good, if not better, than human inspectors or human
forklift drivers,” Poliakine said.
According to MusashiAI, its robots “are genuinely autonomous,
opposed to automated – they are given tasks and define their own optimal way to
perform them, just as humans do.”
Artificial intelligence in the U.S. is likely to impact millions
of workers, according to recent research by The Brookings Institution. A
Brookings study found
roughly 25% of America's workforce “will face high exposure to automation in
the coming decades” and could ultimately be displaced as a result. And according to a Bank of America Merrill Lynch report published
last year, some half of all jobs worldwide — or up to 800 million total jobs — could be at risk of becoming
obsolete by 2035 due to the rise of automation.
Poliakine contends there is no need for humans to do work that
machines can handle. “We'll see more and more AI-based robotics as a service in
the production line. And that will free up people to do what I think the world
needs, which is more human touch in health care and education,” he said.
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