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Jim Deva-Prasad

Professor and Director of Robotics Center at Lake Superior State University, and 2026 A3 Educator of the Year

Jul 28, 2026

3:22
in history.
3:24
Even right now, if you see in manufacturing, there are about half a million jobs that are not filled between 2024 and 2034 again with Studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are expected to be about 2 million unfilled jobs in the next eight years or so.
3:44
Since I'm in robotics, the compounded annual growth rate in robotics comes in at the lowest 11%.
3:52
If you go to logistics, it's like 25%.
3:56
Technology growth is not the shortage, it's the people.
4:00
And this clear evidence misunderstanding perhaps would be that there is talk about how AI is replacing jobs, which is actually kind of interesting.
4:10
Here they're talking about labor shortage, but yet we're also talking about unemployment.

6 MINS LATER

10:31
But what

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