<![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - automation]]> 10 <![CDATA[Robots could help to recover the shoe, fabric and leather factories of Mallorca]]>

“We could reindustrialize Mallorca: recover the tile, fabric, footwear, and leather companies… And tools like automation would be a help”. This was defended by Andreu Pallisser, one of the managers of the Mallorcan company TIP Data, during the Automation 360 conference, which took place this Thursday at Casa Esment, in Palma. The company brought together specialists from Siemens and ESTUN Robotics to show how robotics, artificial intelligence, and digitalization are already being applied to companies and projects on the Islands.

]]> <![CDATA[Automatic]]> When I was a child, ATMs arrived at banks. The idea was to make it so fun and simple that they even installed one for children—they called it the Diver Caixer—so you could keep a savings account and deposit money, even 100-peseta coins, just like in a piggy bank on the street. And the ATM (which was a Sa Nostra brand) gave you trading cards, in addition to updating your passbook. It's also true that there was talk back then—in the mid-nineties—that ATMs would take jobs away from human bank tellers. But at the same time, people were already starting to talk about how the jobs lost in the banking sector (and there were mass early retirements in those years…) would be gained in the field of IT, which, obviously, was filled by younger generations.

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