PEOPLE & SKILLS
The Robot Revolution
The robot revolution is coming, but how quickly and to what scale? Manufacturing Global investigates Writ ten by: Abigail Phillips
THE ROBOT REVOLUTION is here and it’s shaking up the global manufacturing sector for good. According to a recent survey conducted by Grant Thornton, which asked 2,571 executives in 36 economies how the see robotics influencing their industry, a staggering 43 percent of manufacturing companies across the globe expect to replace more 8
September 2015
than 5 percent of their employees with robots in the near future. As more and more R&D is expended on replacing human intelligence with machines, the volume of robots on manufacturing production lines across the globe may soon radically increase. As it stands, more than half of businesses see themselves keeping their employees on board however, with 28 percent stating those