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The great equalizer: How robotics frees manufacturers from consolidating in low-wage nations
These days it is hard to read an article about the future of robots that does not include a reference to jobs. As a pure roboticist I object to the constant connection between the two, but as a concer...
15 April 2013, by
John Dulchinos
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment?
Do industrial robots really have a positive impact on employment? Of course they do and there are over 50 years of data proving that to be the case....
12 April 2013, by
Frank Tobe
Robots and reshoring in the US
... In an opinion piece in the NY Times, Paul Krugman cites a report about the growing evidence of “reshoring” of manufacturing. The principle reasons are rising wages in Asia; lower energ...
09 December 2012, by
Frank Tobe
