CEP News: The Telegraph: Britain lags rivals in robots - but automating the workplace may not mean huge job losses

The Telegraph:
Britain lags rivals in robots - but automating the workplace may not mean huge job losses

8 February 2016

The opportunity to automjate UK workplaces does not necessarily mean huge unemployment and lower pay as machines take over. The claims came in presentations ahead of the Automatica Robotics Trade Show, and aimed to highlight the changes to industry and scoiety the new technology will present. ''Robots can 'crowd out' people in lower-skilled jobs,'' said Guy Michaels, an economics professor at the LondonSchool of Economics who has studied the likely impact of robots. However, this process has been going on for hundreds of years with technology taking over tasks from humans but new roles develop as advances are made and new fields open up.

This article was published by The Telegraph on February 8, 2016
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Related publications
Robots at work: the impact on productivity and jobs Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels. Article in CentrePiece, Volume 20, Issue 1 Summer 2015
'Robots at Work', Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1335 March 2015

Related Links
Georg Graetz webpage
Guy Michaels webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

The Telegraph:Britain lags rivals in robots - but automating the workplace may not mean huge job losses

The Telegraph:
Britain lags rivals in robots - but automating the workplace may not mean huge job losses