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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 fourth industrial revolution is transforming manufacturing processes with the use of automated control systems. By educating society and preparing the workforce with new skills we can allay fears about automation. Here are three reasons why automation is something to be embraced.
Robots are helping humans in a growing number of places – from archaeological sites to disaster zones and sewers. The most recent robotic inventions can entertain people in care homes and squeeze into small spaces. Robotics engineers are among the top 20 job types on a growth trajectory, according to the World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2025.
