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How Robotics

is Transforming

the Construction

Industry

Robotic technology provides the construction more open to utilizing technology. With robotic
industry with numerous advantages. With the goal technology, you can expect traditional construction

of automating processes and increasing productivity, activities like welding, material handling, packing,
robotics are being used to get work done quicker, dispensing, cutting and packing to be fully automated.

cheaper and with more precise detail. This article This will not only allow for precision and accuracy
outlines certain areas of construction that are being throughout all construction processes, it represents

impacted by robotic technology, discussing its current a significant time and financial savings as well.
impact on the industry, as well as what you can expect Altered Workforce

to see in the future. According to a report from the World Economic
Automated Technology Forum, roughly 5 million jobs are expected to be
One of the uses of robotics is to allow for greater lost by 2020. They attribute much of this job loss to

automation in various processes. In many aspects of artificial intelligence, machine-learning, 3D Printing
construction, specifically manufacturing, packing and and robotics, all of which will significantly impact the

building, automating these processes is becoming construction industry, accounting for an anticipated
the goal. With greater development in robotics and 10% of total job losses. The WEF predicts that these

machinery, construction companies are becoming technologies will be slowly integrated, replacing

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