Robots 'have created 261,000 new jobs' in US automotive sector, not destroyed them

Sooraj Shah
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Rise of the robots comes with a rise in jobs - but is this just a coincidence?

The increase in the use of industrial robots in the US automotive industry has created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, rather than destroyed them, according to a new report from the Statistical ...

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