Georgetown: Thirty students of the Government Technical Institute (GTI) participated in a technology seminar under the theme “Rise of the Robot” Tuesday at STARR Computers Inc. head office at 59 Brickdam. The seminar was chaired by President of Starr Computers Inc., Michael Mohan. The students that participated in the seminar came from the computer and electrical fields. Mohan explained that outside factories and boardrooms, the technologies of the present industrial revolution can be used to enable a wide range of new services. As intelligent machines begin their march on labor and become more sophisticated and specialized than first-generation cousins like Roomba or Siri researchers have estimated that many jobs worldwide will be automated within the next two decades. And workers are in for a rude awakening. Underscoring some of the jobs being replaced by robots, Mr. Mohan’s list started with telemarketing agents being replace by VoiceBots, Rumba Cleaning robot, driverless car, ATM 24/7 banking, automated toll booth, self-service food court, robotic chefs, Robotic bartender, robotic servers, airport self-check, immigration check-point, 3D printers, Automated pharmacist, surgical robots, farming, construction, delivery services, security services amongst others. According to Starr’s President, he sees the advances happening in technology and it’s becoming evident that computers, machines, robots, and algorithms are going to be able to do most of the routine, repetitive types of jobs. He explained that a robot revolution will transform the global economy over the decades ahead cutting the costs of doing business. As well as robots performing manual jobs, such as hoovering the living room or assembling machine parts, the development of artificial intelligence means computers are increasingly able to think, performing analytical tasks once seen as requiring human judgment. In the most advanced manufacturing sectors – among Japan’s carmakers, for example – robots are already able to work unsupervised round the clock for up to 30 days without interruption. While offshoring manufacturing jobs to low-cost economies can save up to 65% on labour costs, replacing human workers with robots saves up to 90%.
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