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The Three-Tier HR Robots
Robots are purpose-filled geniuses. If you have a problem with a large payload, they will make it look as natural as lifting a feather. If you have a dirty task that can be overwhelming for the fragile exoskeleton of humanity, they immediately become the perfect land rats to dig through those tunnels. However, it is quite apparent that these mentioned tasks are not all that they bring to the table. The HR department is now in the hands of robotics, quite literally. This article takes a look at what tags alongside their helping hand.
As the manufacturing industry continues to grow, the human labor force that puts it in check continues to dwindle due to aging. The baby boomers are no longer booming the manufacturing industry as their bone structures have lost their youthful grip. They now seek shelter in less difficult tasks. Thus it leaves a gap for a necessary and needed robotic invasion and assistance.
Robots as Beasty Workaholics
The nine lives of a cat cannot measure the infinite soul of a robot. They wear their bragging rights on their sleeves. Robots like to venture in the three dimensions (3Ds) that are a nightmare to humans. These are Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous. Mundane duties like fastening that can take a human joint to retirement are something that they can do in their sleep if they could sleep. They are perfect for multitasking and pay attention-to-detail on high-value tasks, including the likes of operations management.
Safety Features, New Age Robots, and On-Site Injuries
The revolution of the robotic industry is at the mercy of sensors. The safety sensors make it relatively easy for humans to work comfortably alongside robots. The robotic sensors make it possible for the robots to detect the proximity length of a nearby human or any human within its environs. When a human gets too close to dangerous proximity, the robot in question will intellectually slow down or completely shut down. Thus working with a hazardous machine is no longer that dangerous. It, therefore, helps boost closer collaboration and improves worker safety.
Collaborative Robots Versus Traditional Robots under Production
Such a relationship does not depend on the type of robot but the stage and nature of their collaboration. Its operational speed has to be safe for the humans within its environs. The reduced speed of the collaborative robot makes it less harmful to humans, which is somewhat compromising. Its performance speed is limited to its assigned power. On the other hand, the traditional standard industrial robotic design is not human-friendly since its workforce and power has no limit. Thus it has the potential to adapt to the needed speed of the application. Therefore, a workable solution to such a menace is using robotic sensors that will make hostile robotic environments also human-friendly.
Robots and Labor Shortage in the Manufacturing Space
The lack of an experienced and skilled workforce is a slot that robots can happily fill. The humans will have time to be more suited in production strategies and other logical initiatives and leave assembling, fastening, and palletizing to the flawless robots. The multitasking nature of robots will also alleviate production pressure in cases of human recruitment shortages.
The Aging Factor
Since robots will literally take the burdening weight off the shoulders of the aging workers, the older workers will be the perfect mentors for the young skills yearning to collaborate with the robots. Countries like Japan are automating to cope up with an aging population. Intelligent vending machines are an example. Thus it is vital to learn and adapt from such strategies for a continuous and collaborative human-robotic world.
Harper Harrison is a reporter for The Hear UP. Harper got an internship at the NPR and worked as a reporter and producer. harper has also worked as a reporter for the Medium. Harper covers health and science for The Hear UP.
