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Robots create Jobs

At the 19th Annual Robotics Industry Forum in Orlando Florida, Mike Wilson, President of the British Automation and Robot Association presented a study called: Positive Impact of Industrial Robots on Employment, which included information and statistics on robots and job creation. This study was sponsored by International Federation of Robotics and conducted by Metra Martech, a market research company.

Often when we think of robotic insertion into the workforce, we think of robots replacing humans and thus increasing unemployment by putting people out of work. This however is far from the case today as Mr. Wilson pointed out, that because of “Direct employment due to robotics: 2 to 3 million jobs (are) created in world manufacturing. That is 2 to 3 jobs per robot in use.

JA Carette
By JA Carette
on Feb 02, 2012 2:00 AM. 2 min read time
 
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