Heavy industry is one of the last frontiers of automation, but a new centre shows how robotics and AI can reshape how we build physical infrastructure.
Automation drives down costs, improves agility and makes new business models practical, with a potential upside of more than tenfold improvement in efficiency. The elephant in the room, however, remains the immediate association with job replacement and the resulting rise in socio-economic gaps.
A global automation programme guides factory-scale adoption and use-case sharing, governed by central and local digital transformation offices, with plans to establish a lighthouse factory for each product group.
The Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 examines how broadening digital access is affecting the world of work – and looks at the fastest growing and declining job roles.
What is intelligent automation? Intelligent automation is a combination of methods involving people, organizations and also technologies involving machine learning. Intelligent automation is aimed at automating end-to-end business processes on computers.
By being focussed on repetitive administrative tasks, AI agents can free up skilled workers to focus on jobs like decision-making, creativity and strategy.
The availability of data is what defines which industries are most disrupted by AI. Job-seekers must focus on opportunities that combine tech capabilities with human judgement and business needs
Industrial operations are at a pivotal moment, shaped by rising complexity and workforce shortages, and further amplified by global uncertainties. This white paper explores how advances in industrial robotics are redefining automation and creating new opportunities for resilience and growth.
A just transition for ports So, what does a balanced approach to automation look like, and how can ports lead a just transition? By recognizing their strategic role in climate action, ports can turn investments in new technologies – including automation – into opportunities for growth that strengthen, rather than reduce, job security.
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million ...
