2030

20 million manufacturing jobs go to robots

by 2030

Oxford Economics calculated that up to 20 million manufacturing jobs will be lost to robots by 2030, when the global robot stock could reach 20 million.

Forecast: Oxford Economics, 2019. Source: Oxford Economics

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