economy

Robots may save the global economy

Frank Tobe 13 Dec 2016

A recent article in The Washington Post by Morgan Stanley strategist and author of "The Rise and Fall of Nations" Ruchir Sharma, provides a nuanced overview of the issues of jobs, robots, productivi...

Estimating the impact of robots on productivity and employment

Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels 14 Jul 2015

To discover the impact of robots on the average manufacturing worker, we analysed their effect in 14 industries across 17 developed countries from 1993 to 2007. We found that industrial robots increas...

Robohub focus: Dealing with the ‘jobs’ question

Hallie Siegel 15 Apr 2013

For the next week, Robohub will host a special focus on robots and jobs, featuring original articles from leading experts in the fields of robotics and automation. The goal of the series is to explore...

Raffaello D’Andrea on “Do robots kill jobs?”

Raffaello D'Andrea 14 Apr 2013

There is no doubt that robots, and automation in general, replace humans in the work-force: all productivity-enhancing tools, by definition, result in a decrease in the number of man-hours required to...

Ability to do creative, non-routine work will be a must in the coming automation era. Is this realistic for most workers?

Martin Ford 13 Apr 2013

There can be no doubt that technological progress has resulted in a far more prosperous society. Technology has often disrupted entire industries and, in some cases — as with the mechanization of ag...

There is no war other than the one we are fighting with ourselves

Federico Pistono 13 Apr 2013

Just five years ago, anybody who spoke of technological unemployment was labeled a luddite, a techno-utopian, or just simply someone who doesn’t understand economics. Today things are very different...

Henrik Christensen interview: Robots are not killing jobs | IEEE Spectrum

Hallie Siegel 10 Apr 2013

IEEE Spectrum's Steven Cherry interviews Henrik Christensen, KUKA Chair of Robotics at Georgia Tech's College of Computing and Director of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. Says Christ...