Moreover, the recent “Robots at Work” study carried out by Uppsala University and the London School of Economics (LSE), found that, as of 1993, the U.K. ranked eighth out of 17 developed countries in terms of “robot density” — robot stock per human hour worked....In spite of the gloomy outlook, Guy Michaels, an associate professor at the LSE — and co-author of the “Robots at Work” study — stresses the situation might not be as bad as it might appear on the surface.