Last October, when I blogged about Orchard Supply Hardware’s new retail robots, their description gave the impression of limited functionality: Greeter Robots Are Unveiled in Hardware Stores . These days, they are called “sales assistants.” Apparently the machines are working out.

Below, an OSHbot helps a customer find a desired gizmo. The smart machine costs $50,000 and doesn’t require coffee breaks, healthcare or vacations. Or sleep: after business hours, it cruises around and updates its database of where items are located in the store.

Naturally, the OSH management thinks the smart machines are a great addition to the business.

In the article below, New York Post reporter Diane Francis asks what people are supposed to do to earn a living in the future, a vital question that goes unasked by the masters of the universe who run Washington.

She mentions without name a futurist who thinks the worldwide job-loss catastrophe will be overwhelming, apparently futurist Dr. Thomas Frey who compiled a rather stunning list of disappearing occupations and correlating prediction: 2 Billion Jobs to Disappear by 2030.

I have no idea whether that prediction is reasonable, but the B-number certainly gets one’s attention. There’s no doubt that a workplace revolution is going on that is huge and will change the world in ways we cannot imagine.

In 2013, an Oxford University study (“The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?”) was published that concluded “about 47 percent of total US employment is at risk” to be replaced by smart machines. So reputable sources are warning about a worker armageddon.

Also, hardly a day goes by when some media expert can’t figure out why the economic recovery is jobless. They should listen more closely to business, which says it has become “more efficient” during the recession: that means human workers have been replaced by robots and computers.

The Post article doesn’t mention the connection to immigration, but America certainly does not need to import foreign workers when there are fewer jobs now and in coming years. The robotically adjusted number of immigrants needed for American jobs in the future is ZERO.

I’ve added a few links to the article below: