How will digital manufacturing, robotics and associated technologies affect employment levels in engineering? Will robots work alongside humans, or increasingly replace them? Every wave of mechanisation and automation that has hit industry has affected employment patterns, from the first Industrial Revolution to the present day. Concerns remain, and the introduction and spread of robotics and automation has raised concerns that human employees could be the victims of technology. Industry 4.0 goes hand-in-hand with automation, as the digital technologies which enable it are suited to monitoring the operation and optimisation of automated equipment. Proponents of the technology often claim that […]
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