08-25-2015, 04:47 AM
Retail is one of the sectors still employing a lot of lower skilled workers. But robots that lead you to what you are looking for, robots that have internet connections to store chain employees in distant places, and robots that stock the shelves and polish the floors are just a matter of time. In some cases, in just a matter of a pretty short period of time. Silicon Valley start-ups are developing hotel concierge service robots too.
FuturePundit: Labor-Saving Robots To Cause Mass Unemployment?
Those modern day luddites complaining that technology is taking people's jobs may have to eat their hat. Research by economists shows technology has created more jobs than it's destroyed—and they have 140 years of data to prove it.
Don’t fear the robots, tech creates more jobs than it destroys: report