The UK needs more robots to improve worker efficiency


Employees work with new robots at Continental's pilot location for industry 4.0 applications in Regensburg, Germany. Highly robotised economies including Singapore, South Korea, Germany and Japan have very low jobless rates, he noted, and sectors like the German automotive industry show that there can be simultaneous growth in employment and the use of robots. — Reuters

The UK needs more robots to help solve economic problems like worker shortages and low efficiency, industry groups said on March 2.

We see "these headlines, some are fear-mongering or alarmist, that robots may take jobs”, Patrick Schwarzkopf, managing director of the VDMA Robotics and Automation Association, said in London. "The reality is that the problem might not be that robots are installed – the problem might be that robots are not installed.”

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