Inside a huge warehouse on Staten Island thousands of robots are busy distributing thousands of items sold by the giant of online sales, Amazon.
The UK is falling behind in employing robots as firms make do with older machines or hire human workers.
Sales of robots fell 3% last year, even as the European Union saw a 7% increase, according to data compiled by the International Federation of Robotics. That’s compounding the slow rate of adoption that has seen Britain falling behind its similarly industrialised peers. In 2017 it had just 85 per 10,000 employees, compared to 106 on average across Europe.
