Robots are coming for jobs of as many as 800 million worldwide


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 30 Nov 2017

A SoftBank Group Corp. Pepper humanoid robot, center, stands in front of a Boston Dynamics Inc. Atlas humanoid robot, left, and Spot robot as they are displayed at the SoftBank Robot World 2017 in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2017. SoftBank Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son has put money into robots, artificial intelligence, microchips and satellites, sketching a vision of the future where a trillion devices are connected to the internet and technology is integrated into humans. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg

As many as 800 million workers worldwide may lose their jobs to robots and automation by 2030, equivalent to more than a fifth of today’s global labour force. 

That’s according to a new report covering 46 nations and more than 800 occupations by the research arm of McKinsey & Co. 

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