News Analysis: Robots to possibly bring severe repercussions to U.S. society

News Analysis: Robots to possibly bring severe repercussions to U.S. society

Visitors look at a robot at Gateway’ 17 held in Detroit, the United States, June 21, 2017. (Xinhua/Wang Ping) WASHINGTON, July 10 (Xinhua) — While industrial robots are predicted to replace millions of U.S. workers and suppress wage growth in the next decade, reforms in education and social safety net largely lag behind, said a renowned U.S. economist.

"There’s a real mismatch between our institutions and the technologies coming on board," Daron Acemoglu, an economist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told Axios Media, an American news website, in an interview published on Sunday night.

Industrial robots have taken over routine […]

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