How to Use automation in a Sentence
automation
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Officials have said that full automation could be viable by the end of the decade.
— Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022 -
Brennan has been an advocate of the city switching to curbside garbage pickup through the use of automation, citing its cost savings.
— cleveland, 6 May 2022 -
That model can’t be recreated in the West, prompting companies to turn to automation.
— Trefor Moss, WSJ, 6 May 2022 -
People are being replace by automation and new technologies.
— Brent Lang, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024 -
What is the longer-term impact of automation and AI at the port?
— Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2024 -
For Shimizu, the answer to the problem comes through robots, automation, and AI.
— Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 1 Apr. 2024 -
The pizza itself is the product of two years of fine-tuning the recipe for both flavor and ease of automation.
— Sam Deanstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022 -
On the first part, briefly, for 20 years of tech automation, people have predicted all kinds of jobs would go away.
— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 12 May 2023 -
In that respect, automation in art has been a preview of the rise of AI in art with code now standing in for the teams of assistants.
— Adario Strange, Quartz, 30 Aug. 2022 -
The union had been demanding a 77% raise over six years, plus a complete ban on the use of automation at the ports, which members see as a threat to their jobs.
— Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024 -
Is there an automation out there that can solve a problem in your business?
— Melissa Johnson, Forbes, 6 June 2022 -
These were the employees who reset the bowling pins and rolled back the bowling balls in the days before automation.
— John Kelly, Washington Post, 17 June 2023 -
There’s also not a huge amount of automation by the attackers, Bilodeau says.
— WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023 -
The two sides will still need to come to terms on the question of automation, which has emerged as a more existential issue.
— Phil Helsel, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024 -
Once automation arrived, the Coast Guard was ready to tear down the old keepers’ residence.
— Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024 -
The hub still has Z-Wave, but that's only for automation of third-party products.
— Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 29 Mar. 2023 -
There’s also synchronized automation in the show, with ring lights moving up and down on either side of the stage as the evening carries on.
— Thania Garcia, Variety, 4 May 2023 -
The same goes for Hunter Douglas smart blinds with PowerView automation.
— Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2022 -
The large firms that dominate this have a long track record of using automation to abuse workers rather than to share fairly with them.
— Time, 4 Oct. 2022 -
Phones may even replace apps with automations controlled by an on-device AI agent.
— IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2024 -
In the past 8 to 10 years there have been tremendous advancements in warehouse automation.
— IEEE Spectrum, 3 Feb. 2023 -
But automation isn’t just a showbiz concern, new polling for the Los Angeles Times shows.
— Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023 -
While the platform has seen improvements over the past year, it’s still suffered from a lack of automation options and slow response times due to its reliance on the cloud.
— Jennifer Pattison Tuohy, The Verge, 15 May 2024 -
Farms got bigger to survive, adding more cows, more automation and more workers.
— Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 23 Feb. 2023 -
The good news is that the case for investing in automation has gotten easier.
— Michael Kahane, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022 -
The smart home and automation market is like that pretty much everywhere.
— Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 23 Dec. 2023 -
Other chains plan to speed up their use of automation, including kiosks and robots.
— Alina Selyukh, NPR, 30 Mar. 2024 -
While the applications for automation are varied, my takeaways from this trade show were more concerned with what makes for a great tradeshow.
— John Hayes, Forbes, 29 June 2022 -
Incredibly, despite stories like this and the countless other in-flight computer or mechanical issues that don’t make headlines, some manufacturers are still forging ahead and seeking to replace pilots with automation.
— Jason Ambrosi, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2024 -
Introducing new dependencies can also lead to brittleness: Exploiting gains from automation can mean dropping human oversight, and chaos results when critical computer systems go down.
— Bruce Schneier, WIRED, 26 Nov. 2024
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