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Title: Will robots make

our lives better or
worse?
By: J.Bradford DeLong
October 1, 2014
https://agenda.weforum
.org/2014/10/jbradford-delongrobots-workersproductivity/

ANNOTATION
The author wrote about how robotics and technology affected
the workplace. He talked about how technologies have made
life easier and how technologies have made some human
workers lose their jobs. He also referred to the industrial
revolution and how it affected the factory workers. He believes
that there will be another revolution in the modern era that will
make robotics integrate into all factory work. He also believes
that the revolution will eliminate many jobs and hurt the job
economy. He also believes that many workers are going to be
replaced with more efficient robots. DeLong thinks that robots
will slowly take over all job and make human labor less
desirable.

THOUGHTS
This article helped me understand how
robotics is going to eliminate jobs

The author wrote about how robotics have helped develop

This article tells me how
products that we use every day. He talked about how most
products are created by industrial robots. He talked about how
robotics can create new jobs, with the integration of robotics
into factories. He also stated that the maintenance and the
By: Brian Huse
upkeep of the robots can create new jobs. He also said that the
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fact that robots can ruin the job economy is untrue because the
http://www.robotics.org creation of robotics can create even more jobs because of the
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detail.cfm/IndustrialHe also talked about how the industry can grow and expand
Robotics-Industryover time. He wants robotics and other technologies to grow out
Insights/How-Robotsof factories and slowly become an everyday item we use. Brian
Will-Affect-Futurealso believes that robotics can eventually affect the health care
Generations/content_id business. He says that robots can be used to diagnose diseases.
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He believes that the robots have a huge future and it can expand
into any industry.
Title: How Robots
Will Affect Future
Generations

Title: Will Robots

Create New Jobs
When They Take
Over Existing
Ones?
By: Tom Simonite
April 16, 2013
http://www.technol
ogyreview.com/vie
w/513761/willrobots-create-newjobs-when-theytake-over-existingones/

The author explains how the tool wont be used to replace

workers because these robots will be used to do minimal jobs.
He also states that the robots will become more of a tool rather
than an independent worker. He also the robot will be used jobs
that is usually not preferred by humans. The article explains it
will only replace the jobs that many people quit quickly. Even
then it will be used as a tool and an accessory for their job. The
article states from a study done by the International Federation
of Robotics showed that the job demand has not come down
since the increase of the use of industrial robotics. In fact, the
use of robotics have increased demand for jobs.

Title: Do industrial
robots really have a
positive impact on
employment?
By: Frank Tobe
April 12,2013
http://robohub.org/doindustrial-robots-reallyhave-a-positive-impacton-employment/

The deployment of robots into a factory situation involves

even more complex computations and assumptions, which is
why the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) assigned
the UK-based research firm Metra Martech in 2009 to figure
out how to compute the effect on jobs of the deployment of
industrial robots. The IFR annually collects, reports on
shipments and sales, computes robots at work and makes fiveyear sales and deployment projections of industrial and
service robots worldwide.

Title: This Robot

can change
manufacturing
By: Will Knight
September 18,
2012
http://www.technol
ogyreview.com/ne
ws/429248/thisrobot-couldtransformmanufacturing/

The author wrote about how robotics have helped develop

products that we use every day. He talked about how most
products are created by industrial robots. He talked about how
robotics can create new jobs, with the integration of robotics
into factories. He also stated that the maintenance and the
upkeep of the robots can create new jobs. He also said that the
fact that robots can ruin the job economy is untrue because the
creation of robotics can create even more jobs because of the
maintenance, programming and the development of new robots.
He also talked about how the industry can grow and expand
over time. He wants robotics and other technologies to grow out
of factories and slowly become an everyday item we use.

Title: What
happens to
Society when
robots replace

Ultimately, we need a new, individualized, cultural, approach to

the meaning of work and the purpose of life. Otherwise, people
will find a solution human beings always do but it may not be
the one for which we began this technological revolution. He

workers?
By: William H.
Davidow and
Micheal S. Malone
https://hbr.org/201
4/12/whathappens-tosociety-whenrobots-replaceworkers

also referred to the industrial revolution and how it affected the

factory workers. He believes that there will be another
revolution in the modern era that will make robotics integrate
into all factory work.