Robots Will Replace 20 Million Jobs 8.5% Of Manufacturing Workers Will Be Laid Off By 2030, And More Than 14 Million Robots Will Be Working.

Robots are expected to replace about 20 million manufacturing jobs in the next 10 years, which means that about 8.5% of the world's manufacturing workers will be laid off by robots, according to a report released by Oxford Institute of Economic Research, a global forecasting and quantitative analysis firm, on June 26.

Robot is the common name of automatic control machine (Robot). Automatic control machine includes all the machines that simulate human behavior or thought and other organisms (such as robotic dogs, robotic cats, etc.). In a narrow sense, there are many classifications and disputes about the definition of robots. Some computer programs are even called robots.

In contemporary industry, robots refer to man-made machine devices that can automatically perform tasks to replace or assist human work. The ideal high simulation robot is the product of advanced integrated cybernetics, mechatronics, computer and artificial intelligence, materials science and bionics. At present, the scientific community is researching and developing in this direction.

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According to the Guardian, the study shows that robots have lost about 1.7 million manufacturing jobs worldwide since 2000, including 400,000 in Europe, 260,000 in the United States and 550,000 in China. Last year, the World Economic Forum predicted that technological progress would create 133 million jobs worldwide over the next 10 years, and only 75 million jobs would be replaced.

But the latest report points out that this trend will be devastating and may exacerbate income inequality in countries and even within countries. "Automation will exacerbate regional differentiation in many developed economies around the world and unevenly distribute the benefits and costs among different groups," the report said. A global analysis of 29 developed economies found that in low-income and more affluent regions, the average number of manufacturing jobs replaced by each new industrial robot was 2.2 and 1.3, respectively.

The report also shows that China is bringing tremendous momentum to automation growth. China has installed one-fifth of the world's industrial robots, and one-third of the world's total installed robots are being installed. China is "investing heavily in robots to position itself as a global manufacturing leader," says the Oxford Institute of Economics. By 2030, more than 14 million robots will be "working" in China, dwarfing all other countries in the world.