There are about 1.63 million robots on the planet.
It is estimated that by 2023, the robotic automation industry will be worth about 12 billion dollars.
By 2025, the division of tasks will be fifty percent between humans and robots.
The influence of technology is already in our day to day. In recent years, the cost of labor has become more important for the operations of companiesthat is why the inclusion of bot has come to help in the work of many workers in the world.
Given this, there is currently a great disruption caused in the labor market by Industry 4.0 and robotization. Many specialists consider that automation through advanced robotic technologies could give economic benefits thanks to the reduction of the time dedicated to tasks and routine services performed by persons holding positions and functions of greater responsibility.
According to a study of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)the intensification of the use of technology favors the countries that are better prepared to adapt to advances. In Latin America and the Caribbean, for example, it is estimated that a large part of the workers are employed in occupations with a high probability of automation.
On the other hand, a study of World Economic Forum (WEF in its acronym in English), detailed that by 2025, the distribution of tasks will be fifty percent between humans and robots, which could result in an increase in inequality.
In the report titled The Future of Jobs 2020 the WEF indicates its estimates, for 2025 where it highlights that the automation rate of the workforce will be 47 percent, compared to the current 33 percent, while jobs performed by human beings will represent 53 percent, well below the current 67 percent.
The bot in companies
The arrival of these new technologies to the productive activity has caused certain stigmas, where the fear of replacing the human labor and job dissatisfaction within companies.
New research and the experience of RPA Rocketbot has shown that these myths are far from being true, and the integration of Robotic Process Automation (RPA), automation of repetitive processes applied in any company where there is information processing, data exchange and office tools it ends up being much more harmonious than what the workers and institutions themselves expected.
According to data from Think, the robotic process automation industry is experiencing a boom after the Covid-19 pandemic, so it is estimated that it will be worth about 12 billion dollars by 2023. In that sense, the technology consultancy Gartner predicts that 72 percent of companies will work with software robots to automate tasks.
“Since the industrial revolution there has been a fear that machines could replace people. However, whenever a technological innovation arrived, what happened is that new business areas were generated, jobs were added and there was more dynamism. With software robots it is the same”, said Rafael Fuentes, co-founder and Commercial Director of the RPA company Rocketbot.
Among other data that demonstrate the importance of robotics in companies, is the study “The Workforce in Europe” conducted by ADP, highlighted that nearly 28 per cent of the European workforce are concerned that, At some point in the future, your work will be done automatically. Meanwhile, 15 percent believe that it will happen in five years, and more than 28 percent believe that in ten.
“From experience, we have had to be part of more than five hundred RPA integration projects in different companies in Latin America and Europe, from different industries, and in more than 95% of the time it does not involve layoffs. What really happens is that workers are released from monotonous and repetitive tasks and acquire new functions, in addition to creating positions destined for automation”, added the co-founder and Commercial Director of Rocketbot.
As the executive explains in the report, another trend when implementing software robots to automate processes is that of the mass training of workers, so that they can program and manipulate the bots themselves, without the need for IT experts.
“We have several examples with financial companies in Latin America and industrial production companies in Europe, where companies allocate, within the digitization plan, training so that they work directly with the robot, improving their productivity and adding knowledge. There are even firms that have established the ‘one worker, one bot’ regime. This system will be installed massively in a matter of a few years”, the text points out.
As a clear example, there are already many major companies that use robots in their workforce, as an example Zara’s parent company, Inditex, has up to fourteen automated factories operating throughout the Spanish territory, where it has included dozens of robots in each of them that do practically everything.
Another example is Adidas, which has simplified the shoe manufacturing process introducing robots to the production line in Atlanta.
In conclusion, the reality is that there are already many types of robots and that they already help us daily with our most daily tasks.
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