We Just Had The First Humanoid Robot Strike Ever

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    "title": "We Just Had The First Humanoid Robot Strike Ever",
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    "excerpt": "By John Koetsier , Senior Contributor. In early July, Hyundai proudly showcased its Boston Dynamics Atlas robot kicking a soccer ball in the FIFA World Cup. Now its workers are engaging in a rolling strike aimed at ensuring no human jobs are lost to humanoid robot workers. This is likely the first-ever humanoid robot induced strike, although there are other issues at play in the current union negotiations. Most of the debates about humanoid robots taking human jobs have, until now, been an argument about the future. A projection of something that might happen eventually, to someone, sometime down the road. This week about 35,000 Hyundai workers turned that abstraction into a very concrete reality. The strike impacts Hyundai Motor’s Korean assembly plants that build roughly half the company’s global output. Multiple issues including wages and profit-sharing are on the table, but this dispute also has something new: it is the first auto factory strike explicitly triggered by a plan to put humanoid robots on the line. As far as I’m aware, it’s the first strike anywhere in any industry aimed at preventing humanoids from joining the labor force. The union’s headline demand is pretty clear and blunt: not a single robot enters a Hyundai workplace without a labor-management agreement first. In January, Boston Dynamics announced the new Atlas , and said that the first year’s production...",
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