Rise of the machines: investing in robotics

Rise of the machines: investing in robotics

‘The robotics industry is expected to grow as automation expands into new markets and geographies’ The technology giants of this world – Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft and IBM – are throwing billions of pounds of investment into artificial intelligence, a market that analyst firm IDC projects will be worth $47 billion by 2020. But what does this mean for economies and jobs, and where are the opportunities to make money from this automation revolution?

Ed Smith, who works on the multi-asset team at Rathbones, comments, ‘The optimists’ argument has it that increasingly cheap robots will displace labour, but with […]

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