Robots As Job Creators? Upskilling, Cobots And AI May Prove Job Loss Doomsayers Wrong

Conventional wisdom has it that a coming onslaught of industrial robots will throw millions of current factory workers out of their jobs. The direst predictions envision whole classes of people permanently locked out of the working world. As I detailed in one of my earliest articles, robots eliminating manufacturing jobs is nothing new. It's been going on for decades. But as technological development accelerates and robots become better and cheaper, the risk to current employment is intensified.