Robotics Advantages And Disadvantages

Imagine having worked at the same factory job for twenty-five years and walking in one day to find out that position has been filled by a robot. What else will be done? How will the bills be paid? How will the family be affected? The implementation of robotic machinery in the common workplace has undercut the traditional employee through wage deduction and job loss without adequate success or corporate benefit.
It is easy to jump to the conclusion that the rise in automation will automatically increase wages for the traditional employee and there will be many benefits. That’s what’s happened in the past right? With the newest rise in automatic machinery that is not always the case. A recent study by MIT and Boston University shows that for each robot added to the workforce, wages decreased from .25-.50 percent per one thousand workers (Dvorsky). Wages are not increasing enough to offset this. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports from January of last year to this year wages only increased by about .1 percent (Real Earnings). Many people will say that it is just blue collar, lower class jobs, that will see this effect but that also happens to not be the case. Recently robots have been seen performing the jobs of pharmacists, paralegals, lawyers, and even astronauts (Aquino). As pharmacists robots can process orders for medications and then distribute and put together the right medications according to the dosage. As paralegals and lawyers robots can review computer