In the recent shift from outsourcing manufacturing, many pundits have argued that the addition of more robotic job automation the more manufacturing jobs would be lost. This correlation has recently been the scapegoat for the loss of these jobs regardless of the fact that there is no shortage of alternative explanations including globalization, offshoring, and skill gaps to name a few. However, if robots were a substitute for human workers than countries with higher investment rates in automation technology should have greater employment loss in their manufacturing industry, right? Not necessarily. In the report by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels the researchers found “that the number of industrial robots per 1 million hours worked in Germany grew over 3 times,” [5] it’s own usage in 1993 and is still currently operating at 3 times the capacity of the U.S. due to the auto industry.

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