"Whilst automation appears to be increasing the demand for high-skilled, high-income employees, its impact on low-skilled, low income employment is less clear," wrote the IFR. "Wage stagnation appears to be far more attributable to structural issues such as employment conditions that force down wages and dampen investment by employers in skills training. A reduction in robot usage would neither help low-skilled workers, nor resolve these structural issues." Augmenting this sentiment is a study published by the London School of Economics (LSE) entitled "Robots at Work," on the use of industrial robots in 17 developed countries between 1993 and 2007. Guy Michaels, head of research for LSE, summarized key results at a press conference at automatica 2018 in Munich, Germany.

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