Jeff Burnstein weighs in with a great guest commentary on the how U.S. Manufacturers benefit from industrial robots.
…With unemployment at about 14 percent or higher in Michigan, it’s not surprising some workers are afraid of robots capable of working seven days a week, 24 hours a day with great accuracy and reliability, capable of performing many tasks better than people.
That fear, so prevalent in the early days of robotics, today is misplaced. What should really give workers pause is when their companies won’t use robots and other automated technologies to become stronger global competitors.
U.S. technology and business innovators recognize that robots in factories have the potential to save and create more jobs than they eliminate. Robots help companies turn out higher-quality and lower-cost goods to compete with those made in China, Mexico, India, or other low-wage nations. They remove people from dangerous and boring jobs they shouldn’t have been doing in the first place, and put them in higher-skilled, higher-paying positions.
