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Released: March 07, 2013
Robots in the workplace: Job creators or terminators?
Source: Cecilia Kang, Washington Post (Free Registration)
At MIT, a management robot is learning to run a factory and give orders to artificial co-workers, and a BakeBot robot is reading recipes, whipping together butter, sugar and flour and putting the cookie mix in the oven. At the University of California at Berkeley, a robot can do laundry and then neatly fold T-shirts and towels.
A wave of new robots, affordable and capable of accomplishing advanced human tasks, is being aimed at jobs that are high in the workforce hierarchy. The consequences of this leap in technology loom large for the American worker — and perhaps their managers, too.
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