Will robotization make us unemployed?

In recent years, the subjects of automation and robotization have been on everyone's lips. It's true that the sector has made considerable progress in recent decades. Indeed, some have succeeded in producing fairly agile humanoid robots. But the big question is what effect their introduction will have on human activities. When some studies talk of 47% of jobs being automated, it's chilling. Will we all be replaced by machines?

As this report shows, the question of robotization needs to be nuanced. What do we mean by job automation? Generally speaking, it's (often tedious) chores that are then taken over by robots. However, a profession is not made up of just one task. A single profession will perform a number of different activities, many of which are difficult for machines to perform. Everything to do with human contact, fine dexterity or creativity, to name but a few, cannot be 100% imitated by robotics.

Even those videos featuring robots doing antics are not representative of reality. They obey a particular program to achieve this; ask them to deviate from it and they'll suddenly become a lot less impressive. In fact, while certain professions are more at risk, we mustn't forget that this technology will also require new positions to regulate these machines, repair them, think up new assignments, etc. So the massive replacement of humans by robots is not something we can expect in the near future.

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