{"id":340678,"date":"2021-09-17T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/as-workers-age-robots-take-on-more-jobs\/"},"modified":"2021-09-17T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:13:15","slug":"as-workers-age-robots-take-on-more-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/as-workers-age-robots-take-on-more-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"#As workers age, robots take on more jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#As workers age, robots take on more jobs<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/2021-09-16T204626Z_538541708_RC28RP9BVONR_RTRMADP_3_USA-ECONOMY-ROBOTS-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Sept 16 \u2013 It turns out robots are taking over jobs fastest around the world in places where their human counterparts are aging the most rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>That is the conclusion of a new study that looked at demographic and industry-level data in 60 countries and found a powerful link between aging workforces \u2013 defined as the ratio of workers aged 56 and older, compared with those aged 21 to 55 \u2013 and robot use, focusing in particular on industrial settings.<\/p>\n<p>The research showed age alone accounted for 35 percent of the variation between countries in their adoption of robots, with those having older workers far more likely to adopt the machines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAging is a huge part of the story\u201d in robot adoption, said Daron Acemoglu, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> who conducted the study with Pascual Restrepo of Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>The research fits a longstanding trend of countries such as South Korea and Germany \u2013 which both have very rapidly aging workforces \u2013 also being among the world\u2019s fastest adopters of robots, based on the number of robots per human worker they deploy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe US has a huge technological advantage in a bunch of areas \u2013 including software and (artificial intelligence),\u201d said Acemoglu. \u201cBut in robots, it\u2019s Germany, Japan and recently South Korea, that are further ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of the world\u2019s top 15 robotics companies, seven are based in Japan and seven in Germany, Acemoglu said.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found a similar pattern inside the US economy \u2013 with metropolitan areas that have older workforces also seeing great adoption of robots after 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined 700 US metros and used the number of robot \u201cintegrators\u201d \u2013 firms that specialize in installing and maintaining industrial robots \u2013 as a proxy for local robotic activity. 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