Robotization is clearly accelerating its pace. Does it have the potential to bring immediate unemployment? What are its advantages for Human Resources?
This is an important topic. Robotization is already a reality, especially with Industry 4.0. And yes, some will lose jobs, but in order to reduce unemployment, professionals need to update and adapt the new industry proposal, seeking multidisciplinarity.
Some interesting works:
Conference Paper Robot introduction in Human work environment. Developments, ...
Conference Paper Challenges and obstacles in robot-machining
Robots are a kind of machines and machines are made to unburden people from work. In a capitalist society, the increase of efficiency due to technological advance would generate more goods and services, but the consequential profit increase will concentrate into a smaller group of people. This trend is already well pronounced and is often cited on the news. Unemployment, which is only one aspect of profit imbalancing, is gaining momentum as an inevitable consequence of the technological advance and may be expected to develop as an effect of robotization.
Robotization or robotics would help robots do tasks which humans find it difficult to do. For instance, manual scavenging and working in unfavorable weather conditions would be possible with robots and not with humans.
Prof. @Srikanth Kavirayani added one thing: It is worth pointing out how much the machines have already relieved women and men of heavy and unpleasant tasks.
To bring the human resources to new tasks, preferably easier to perform and consuming less time, the society should not be targeted at the maximum profit of the single economical entity. The maximum profit encodes capitalization and consequent monopolization of the economical relations in the society. It may instead seek the maximum profit of the society by establishing society profit criteria on an objective (as much as possible) bases. A balanced and limited subjective profit may be allowed to stimulate personal economical freedom and competition, though competition and capitalization should not be prevailing motivation of the society, so that the society may achieve unemployment trends that are relevant to working capability of the individuals, not to capitalization-related power imbalance. Thus a well being of all members of the society as principle may be established.
Fantastic, Prof. @Svetoslav Zabunov. Thanks a lot. My world is business strategy. In this way, I can not easily abstract for the Economy as a whole. I have friends that use to say that I can't abstract at all. In any case, I can conceive in all the movements of large companies an effort to increase competitiveness. This generates lower costs - which benefits the entire population. I exemplify with low-cost aviation: before its arrival, it was impossible in my country for the middle class to fly habitually. The low-cost companies brought new management technologies, costs fell, the middle class began to use this means of transport in an usual basis. Even the less affluent classes began to use air transport. The breakdown of former airlines was an undesirable byproduct, but for the Economy as a whole, it was a much smaller problem than the social profit brought by low-cost airlines.
The strategies are, sadly, beyond academic sphere and go into politics, philosophy, ethics. I guess ti would be inappropriate to discuss this matter on RG :-)
First, I find the classification "neo-liberalism" inappropriate. It looks like a label designed to demoralize something. I stress the need to be fair: I do not think it right to use labels for "socialist economies," because there are very different ways of looking at life in countries that the press claims to be socialists.
Prof. @Carol Munn, I think your concern for academic life is very important. A Researcher need to position yourself in these matters to transform lives. Themes such as innovation and entrepreneurship fit into the curriculum of the best teaching institutions around the world and assist in personal and social development.
thanks, and we as educators need to be able to infuse this certain type of educational programs to engage our youth to become critical thinkers...too many youth are told what to do to solve a problem, that is not going to help our global world prosper. We need creativity, innovators, seekers of unknown to move our world forward....we are now education our future driven learners, so it is important to include robotics and engineering in the classwork at a young age
The technological progress in robotization is one of the key elements of the current fourth technological revolution and the development of Industry 4.0 technology. Robots equipped with artificial intelligence can be employed in companies and enterprises in workplaces where frequently repetitive tasks are performed. On the other hand, in workplaces that require innovation, artistry, creating unconventional solutions, creativity, etc., robots should not replace people.