Manufacturing, healthcare, transportation, supply chain, surveillance, construction, and even food industries also rely on robotics to develop fast and meaningful solutions.
Jobs involving high levels of human interaction, strategic interpretation, critical decision making, niche skills or subject matter expertise won't be replaced by automation anytime soon. “For instance - Lawyers, Leadership roles, Medical Professionals, Healthcare practitioners, IT & HR Professionals.
There are two sides to this coin: Robots and AI will take some jobs away from humans — but they will also create new ones. Since 2000, robots and automation systems have slowly phased out many manufacturing jobs — 1.7 million of them. On the flip side, it's predicted that AI will create 97 million new jobs by 2025.
Workers with lower levels of education and who perform routine tasks—think cashiers or file clerks—face the greatest risks of their jobs being automated.
In automotive factories, robots have become commonplace tools. The automotive industry was the largest user of robots worldwide in 2020. That is according to the International Federation of Robots (IFR). The IFR says that 28% of all robot installations happen in the automotive sector.
Robots continued to develop and can now be found in homes as toys, vacuums, and as programmable pets. Today robots are a part of many aspects of industry, medicine, science, space exploration, construction, food packaging and are even used to perform surgery.
Currently about 1.5 million tasks, no longer depend on human labour, but that number is expected to rise as technology improves. New jobs will replace old ones, and new ones will become more popular as automation releases jobs that have been bad and boring.
Ten years ago, the word "telemedicine" didn't exist. Now you can be a telemedicine physician. Telemedicine Physicians consult with patients over video conferencing and advise from there. It's a multi-billion dollar industry.
Indeed, technology may be useful in augmenting a physician's workflow or perhaps improving the quality of decision making. But technology can never truly replace what it is to be a physician and the very crucial patient-physician relationship that is unique to each individual.
The big difference is that the robots have come not to destroy our lives, but to disrupt our work. Last year, the World Economic Forum released a report estimating that by 2025, 85 million jobs may be displaced by a shift in labor division between humans and machines.
According to the latest paper, employment was reduced by 7.5 percent following exposure to industrial robots. Labour force participation decreased by one percent. The researchers use the manufacturing firm Foxconn as a case study. Foxconn replaced more than 400,000 jobs with robots between 2012 and 2016.
Knockerupper. Before there was the alarm clock, there was a human alarm clock. People would hire “knocker uppers” to tap on the glass of their window with a long pole or shoot peas at the glass to wake them up. The job eventually fell to the wayside when the mechanical alarm clock was invented in 1847.
