US: Increasing use of robots - increasing employment rates

The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) has published a white paper in which data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a range of manufacturing firms document how and why increasing the use of robots is associated with increased employment. Key statistics show that during the non-recessionary periods – 1996-2000, 2002-2007, and 2010-2014 – general employment and robot shipments both increased. Since 2010, the robotics industry in the US has grown substantially. Even during this period of record-breaking robot sales, US employment increased. This data is in stark contrast to the perception that increasing use of robots causes higher rates of unemployment (News Item A3, 5 October 2015).
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