Powerful business elites insist they need a massive immigration amnesty and vastly increased legal immigration because boomers are aging out of the workforce, so America needs to import tens of million...

The Republican Convention closed with a rousing speech by Mitt Romney. (I speak as fair-minded Democrat). It included few concrete promises, but Mr. Romney did say his Administration would be responsib...

My June 3rd VDARE.com piece entitled US Job Creation Stalled By Automation and Our Immigration Overhang failed to finish the story.   Yes, bringing in immigrants to fill jobs Americans can do is stupid...

See also: National Data | May Jobs: Adjusting For Immigration, Much Worse Than The Establishment (Liberal or “Conservative”) Admits, By Edwin Rubenstein How many times do we have to hear the same mess...

This came from our good friend RC: The fastest human butchers can fully debone about 150 chickens per hour. That's a lot of chickens! But the new Mayekawa Automatic Chicken Deboner easily bests it, mas...

Robin Corkery writes from Washington State to note this machine: The Korvan 7420 is setting the standard for high quality blueberries. The model 7420 uses a unique bucket conveyance system to gently c...

A reader recently forwarded this to me: At 3 tons of olive yield per acre the cost for mechanical and hand picking is about the same. With higher yield per acre the cost of mechanical picking would see...

Hiroko Tabuchi writes in USA Today: That's just what the Japanese government has been counting on. A 2007 national technology roadmap by the Trade Ministry calls for 1 million industrial robots to be i...

Via Instapundit, this Wired.com story: Farms Fund Robots to Replace Migrant Fruit Pickers. Vision Robotics, a San Diego company, is working on a pair of robots that would trundle through orchards pluc...

John Derbyshire has an article on the future of robotics, and the dangers of immigration, in the New English Review. I always like this subject, because it was the subject of one the first pieces I wro...