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Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Robots at Work: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

Business News, Technology, News

4.9108 Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz: "The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology." (Daniel H. Wilson) Headline news: "Security robot 'in critical condition.'" Say what? It's true. When Washington D.C. security robot "Steve" took a plunge in a nearby pond, his on-the-job self-drowning accident raised two pivotal questions: Do we really wants robots in the workforce? And which jobs should go to robots versus to humans? In an SAP Digitalist Magazine online survey of more than 1,000 respondents, 60% said they would want robots to help them on the job. And Andra Keay, managing director of Silicon Valley Robotics, says robots are best suited to jobs that fall in the "Four D" categories: dirty, dull, dangerous, deadly. Is it that simple? The experts speak. Kai Goerlich, SAP: "Life finds a way" (Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park, 1993 sci-fi film). Gray Scott, Futurist: "Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot" (Hulk Hogan). Join us for Robots at Work: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

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0:00.0

Welcome to the most nutritious hour of business talk all week.

0:10.7

This is Coffee Break with Game Changers, presented by SAP.

0:14.7

The best run business is Run SAP.

0:17.3

Your host and moderator is Bonnie D. Graham.

0:19.7

You'll hear from the innovators who have learned to use game-changing technologies to shake up the status quo and help move today's businesses in new directions. Now, here's Bonnie D. Graham.

0:30.0

Welcome, welcome, welcome. If you want to run with the game changers, you are in the right place. Let's see what the buzz on the street is today. Oh my, fasten your seatbelts.

0:39.7

I usually say that at the end of the show. Now I'm saying it at the beginning. I have a quote from

0:44.0

Daniel H. Wilson. New York Times bestselling author, TV host, and robotics engineer. He is a

0:51.6

contributing editor at a popular mechanics magazine called the resident

0:55.5

roboticist. That gives you a clue. And he wrote the book, How to Survive a Robot

0:59.7

Uprising, Where's My Jetpack, and How to Build a Robot Army? That's a clue. Here's the

1:04.2

quote. You're going to love this. The robots really embody that love, hate relationship we

1:09.6

have with technology.

1:13.1

Daniel H. Wilson, I think that says it all.

1:15.5

So let me go to the news, breaking news.

1:18.5

Did any of you see the recent headline, I'm quoting this,

1:24.0

cameras capture sad security robot as it drowns itself in the fountain.

1:26.3

This is not fake news. There is a security robot assigned to the Washington Harbor

1:30.1

complex in Georgetown. He was named Steve. He's a night scope K-5 model. He has cameras. He looks

1:37.3

like R2D2 from Star Wars. He's a charmer. He poses for selfies in the media social media.

1:42.9

He's designed to automatically detect threats in the

1:45.8

environment using video cameras, thermal imaging, proximity sensors, GPS, microphones, light

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