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.
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.
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.
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.
By being focussed on repetitive administrative tasks, AI agents can free up skilled workers to focus on jobs like decision-making, creativity and strategy.
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.
Intelligent automation – a combination of AI, digital tools and robotics – is already reducing the administrative burden on healthcare workers and expanding access to more patients. Realizing the potential of intelligent automation requires the entire sector – providers, government agencies, tech companies and others – to collaborate for solutions that improve patient outcomes and ...
Universal automation is the world of “plug and produce” automation software components that solve specific customer problems in a proven way. Think of it as the dawn of an industrial automation app store. The technology already exists to make it possible.
The Gen Z job crisis is real, but it is not inevitable. Despite widespread fear around automation, AI is more likely to amplify existing structural weaknesses, not create them. The solutions lie in boosting job creation, reforming education and training, and expanding access to pathways that reward skills, not just credentials.
