You can see it in the biggest labor shift in modern history. In the early 1800s, around 70% of Americans worked on farms. Then came tractors, combine harvesters, mechanized irrigation. By 2000, farm work in the U.S. had dropped to about 2% of the workforce.

US President Donald Trump claims robots and artificial intelligence will boost US jobs, not destroy them. But will AI really create more work or replace human workers?

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Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of Amazon) Inside Amazon’s 100,000-square-foot ...

TL;DR: Amazon has now deployed a million robots in its fulfillment centers, as well as introducing DeepFleet, a new generative AI model that optimizes robot navigation to enable faster, more cost-effective deliveries. Amazon assures us that this automation ...

To a robot, it might look like something from a horror film. Parts — a battery, circuit boards and wiring —are arrayed in pieces on a white lab bench. Metallic arms and legs lay inert on nearby shelves. A steady, mysterious thump resonates in the distance.

Each new robot represents the loss of 1.6 manufacturing jobs on average. Robots are estimated to replace about 20 million manufacturing jobs by 2030, according to a new report. The global stock of industrial robots has more than doubled since 2010, and the ...