Will Robots Kill the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA?

A recent study by a group of students at MIT set out to find the extent to the which robots have replaced people on the factory floor in the USA.

Instead of finding armies of robots twittering away to each other in Japanese and Chinese, they found:

• One manufacturing plant in Massachusetts had purchased one robot
• One plant in Vermont had purchased two
• And one plant in the mid-west had purchased five - but that company was Japanese owned and operated.

Other than that, there was nary a robot to be seen.

So, what is going on here?

Is the US hopelessly backwards relative to the rest of the world?

The answer is NO!

To find out why, and to learn some interesting facts about manufacturing jobs and their vulnerability to automation, please, then please click here to download a PDF version of the white paper "Will Robots Kill the Remaining Manufacturing Jobs in the USA?" by Dr. Peter Green.

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