{"id":130373,"date":"2021-11-10T20:25:23","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robotics-ceo-says-goal-is-to-remove-human-labor-from-economy"},"modified":"2021-11-10T20:25:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T04:25:23","slug":"robotics-ceo-says-goal-is-to-remove-human-labor-from-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/robotics-ceo-says-goal-is-to-remove-human-labor-from-economy","title":{"rendered":"Robotics CEO Says Goal Is to \u201cRemove\u201d Human Labor From Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotics-ceo-says-goal-is-to-remove-human-labor-from-economy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2021\/05\/07\/jobs-report-labor-shortage-analysis\/\" class=\"\">so-called \u201clabor shortage<\/a>,\u201d companies are looking to finally replace replace workers with machines \u2014 and robotics companies couldn\u2019t be happier to oblige.<\/p>\n<p>David Zapico, the CEO of robotics company Ametek Inc., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2021-11-08\/what-s-happening-in-the-world-economy-the-robots-are-coming\" class=\"\">told <em>Bloomberg News<\/em><\/a> that his company is \u201cfiring on all cylinders\u201d because, as he put it, \u201cpeople want to remove labor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s not alone in his musings. Executives at Hormel Foods Corp and Domino\u2019s Pizza also confirmed to <em>Bloomberg<\/em> that they\u2019re investing in automation in an effort to reduce labor costs and respond to a \u201ctight labor supply,\u201d as one Hormel vice president put it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to the so-called \u201clabor shortage,\u201d companies are looking to finally replace replace workers with machines \u2014 and robotics companies couldn\u2019t be happier to oblige. David Zapico, the CEO of robotics company Ametek Inc., told Bloomberg News that his company is \u201cfiring on all cylinders\u201d because, as he put it, \u201cpeople want to remove [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}