Samsung said to be planning human-unfastened, completely automated fabs inside six years

A warm potato: In a rare tale about a organisation that is not Amazon pushing to replace its human people with machines, Samsung is reportedly making plans to make all its fabs fully automated in the next six years. The Korean massive has already began development of a system as a way to lead to human-free facilities, according to a new report.

Samsung Electronics has evolved a proprietary Smart Sensing System to growth chip yield and improve manufacturing. It is used for semiconductor process manage and control, writes ET News (via DigiTimes).

The smart sensor will measure plasma uniformity for wafers, which affects the overall performance of methods together with etching, deposition, and cleansing.

The sensor is said to be tiny; permitting it to be introduced to the fabs without drastically affecting the present area. It's additionally designed and manufactured in South Korea - these sorts of technology are usually furnished via foreign businesses.

This may all sound first rate for Samsung the agency, but the report states it's far a part of a grander plan for its so-known as synthetic intelligence fab: completely automated plant life that do not require human people.

Concerns that AI and automation will put off extra jobs are exacerbated by using reports of agencies trying to do simply that. In most instances, as a minimum a handful of people are required to oversee the structures and restore anything that goes incorrect. But Samsung Electronics has meeting flora and income networks in 74 countries and employs greater than 270,000 people, so a new technology which can automate greater obligations ought to doubtlessly reason a large variety layoffs.

Amazon is leading the manner with regards to warehouse automation. In October, it announced greater styles of machine would be joining the centers to "assist" people: Sequoia, a Roomba-like gadget designed to perceive and keep inventory and reduce order processing time; and Digit, a five-foot nine-inch 143-pound robot it really is very human-like in its competencies. Maker Agility Robotics' CEO later stated its machines won't replace humans, though he might have supposed to say they might not update all human beings – simply most of them.

With Elon Musk lately predicting that AI and automation will result in the stop of all human employment, one has to surprise how all us jobless people might be capable of come up with the money for some of these automatically produced items.