Staff Pick: The Rise of Robots in the Workplace
(WorldNews Germany)

The On the Economy blog will periodically rerun blog posts that were of particular interest. The following is first in a two-part series from November on the growing presence of robots in the workplace. The second part focused on the possible impact of robots on the U.S. labor market. The use of automation has been steadily growing in recent years, which raises a question about automation`s impact on the demand for certain types of jobs. A recent article in the Regional Economistexamined the expanding presence of robots-a key type of automation-in the workplace. St. Louis Fed Economist Maximiliano Dvorkin and Research Associate Asha Bharadwaj discussed how this may be affecting the U.S....