By 2025 Nearly 5% of China's Workforce Will Be Replaced by Robots, Reveals New Survey

Furthermore, in those two years, the average annual growth rate of investments in robotics was an impressive 57%. What was most troublesome is that this rise mostly impacted workers with the lowest levels of education. In those same two years, robots replaced 9.4% of employees with a junior high school degree or below. This was in direct contrast to the fact that demand for college degree workers grew by 3.6%. According to the International Federation of Robotics, China has become a global leader in automation.