Jason Barton

The manufacturing labor gap shows no sign of slowing down consistent with a report by Deloitte Consulting and therefore the Manufacturing Institute. It believes that the available manufacturing jobs will take off from 522,000 at the top of 2018 to 2.4 million by 2028. Robotic automation is being touted by many as a possible solution to the present growing problem. However, before robots can cure the labor ills, it’s important to acknowledge the hurdles that have got to be overcome.

Skills Gap / Industrial Robotics By Jason Barton for RoboticsTomorrow Sep 24, 2019 You can't escape the fear-mongering around automation, with many claiming that robots will take people's jobs. However, for some industries such as manufacturing, robots can help address the growing labor shortage. Currently, there are over 522,000 available manufacturing jobs in the United States, which is an all-time high.

Research Articles, Behavioral/Cognitive Mariya V. Cherkasova, Luke Clark, Jason J.S. Barton, Michael Schulzer, Mahsa Shafiee, Alan Kingstone, A. Jon Stoessl and Catharine A. Winstanley Journal of Neuroscience 28 November 2018, 38 (48) 10362-10370; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1171-18.2018 Abstract Reward-related stimuli can potently influence behavior; for example, exposure to drug-paired cues can trigger drug use and relapse in people with addictions.