Conventional robots are programmed to carry out specific actions, thus following a rather rigid set of instructions and not acting autonomously. Advanced robots, in contrast to this, are aware of their environment and react to it, making autonomous decisions about what actions to perform.
The survey asked respondents to assess the likely impact—in the next five years—of advanced robotics on their company’s number of employees.
The source did not specify the age of respondents or the type of survey.
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Impact of adoption of advanced robotics on jobs 2019-2023, by main country
Around ** percent of Chinese executives and operations managers surveyed expect the number of employees in their companies to shrink by at least * percent between 2019 and 2023 due to the adoption of advanced robotics. Moreover, some ** percent of Chinese respondents expect that their workforce will shrink by more than ** percent by 2023. While ** percent of German respondents expect their workforce to shrink by at least * percent between 2019 and 2023, only * percent of German respondents believe that the employee reduction in their companies will exceed ** percent.
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