Slides of the talk at the 3rd European Conference on the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021 (a virtual conference), November 18th, 2021.

1. Will Robots Take all the Jobs?
Not yet.
Liadan Anandarajah and Dagmar Monett
Computer Science Department
Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
s_anandarajah19@stud.hwr-berlin.de, dagmar.monett-diaz@hwr-berlin.de
3rd European Conference on the Impact of Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Online, 18th November, 2021

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How to cite this work
Anandarajah, L., & Monett, D. (2021). Will Robots Take all the Jobs? Not
yet. In Matos, F. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 3rd European Conference on
the Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021 (a virtual
conference), pp. 1-10, Academic Conferences International Ltd.,
Reading, UK, November 18th, 2021 [online]. Available at:
https://www.slideshare.net/dmonett/anandarajah-monett-2021-eciair
(Accessed: access date).

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World Bank (2019). World Development Report 2019: The Changing Nature of Work. Washington,
DC: World Bank, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1596/978-1-4648-1328-3.
“ Technology provides
opportunities to create new jobs,
increase productivity, and deliver
effective public services. Through
innovation, technology generates
new sectors and new tasks.

4. We are nowhere
near truly
intelligent machines.
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Preliminary observations
The robotics-worldwide
Archives, “a fully
moderated email list of
robotics researchers
worldwide.”
Curated since August 2005.
See http://duerer.usc.edu/pipermail/robotics-worldwide/

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Research design (1)
Identifying
Defining
Selecting
Constructing
(See details in the
next slide!)
Research questions
Constructing the corpus
of job postings
(08/2005-04/2021;
9,680 job posts).
Identifying and
gathering data
Analyse the
evolution of jobs
postings in Robotics.
Research objectives
Quantitative approach.
Descriptive analysis of
trends. Data Mining.
Programs and libraries.
Approach, methods,
and tools

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Research questions
Are there
significant
differences
between jobs
in industry
versus
academia?
Which
countries
make more
use of the
Archive for
advertising
jobs?
Which
subjects or
areas are in
higher
demand?
How have job
postings been
distributed
over the years?

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Research design (2)
Preparing
Visualising
Analysing

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Buzzwords, terms

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Findings (1)

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Findings (2)

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Findings (3)

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Findings (4)
Medical
Robotics
Sensing
and
percep-
tion
Micro-
robotics
Robot
manipu-
lation
and
effectors

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Location No. of
Posts
Europe 3088
Canada +
USA
2269
Others 539
Location No. of
Posts
United States of
America
2057
United Kingdom 1384
Italy 752
Germany 675
France 537
Singapore 465
Australia 349
China 324
Switzerland 324
Canada 239
Findings (5)

15. There is a growing
demand for workers in
academia, the Robotics
industry, and related fields.
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16. The challenge will not be
the robots coming but
how to skill, upskill and
even reskill the workforce!
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17. Will Robots Take all the Jobs?
Not yet.
Liadan Anandarajah and Dagmar Monett
Computer Science Department
Berlin School of Economics and Law, Germany
s_anandarajah19@stud.hwr-berlin.de, dagmar.monett-diaz@hwr-berlin.de
3rd European Conference on the Impact of Artificial
Intelligence and Robotics, ECIAIR 2021
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
Online, 18th November, 2021