Post By Brenda Walker on 05/28/2016

Automation: Former Restaurant Executive Declares a Robot Arm Is Cheaper Than $15/hour Humans

A one-time CEO of McDonald’s, Ed Rensi, recently appeared on a Fox Business show and explained the financial facts about automation in the fast-food industry: “If the $15 minimum wage goes across the c...
Post By Brenda Walker on 05/23/2016

Automation: Retrofit Transforms Big-Rig Trucks Into Self-Driving Vehicles

It’s not that hard to imagine public acceptance of self-driving buses that poke around a simple route at a safe 12 mph, like the ones being tested in Greece. Also unthreatening is the little Google con...
Post By Brenda Walker on 05/06/2016

Influential People Agree: Automation Threatens Jobs

Over at the exclusive Milken Institute confab this week, wealthy and important people were warning about the coming robot jobs apocalypse that endangers employment across the skills spectrum.As an exam...