Will cities adapt when automation reshapes the job market"
Many see the Rust Belt becoming the Robot Belt. Can local leaders adapt quickly enough" Watch out, Rust Belt: The robots are coming. And they?re after one of the more precious resources in these beleaguered U.S. manufacturing hubs: jobs.
That, at least, is the implication of a new analysis by the Brookings Institute, ?Where the robots are,? that suggests the rise of robotics and automation will clobber the same areas hit by manufacturing?s decline, as technology radically changes how things get made (and how many workers are necessary to make them).
Since industrial robots work best where there?s industry, it?s no surprise they?re currently clustered in the Midwest and upper South, according to the article, key areas in auto manufacturing. Michigan alone accounts for 28,000 of the nation?s industrial robots, 12 percent of the total, and metro Detroit boasts 8.5 industrial robots per 1,000 workers. The Rust Belt, as some have said, is becoming the Robot Belt, knocking another serious blow to the region, where cities, like Pittsburgh, have only in the last decade or so really bounced back with advanced manufacturing, innovation hubs, and attempts to diversify their economy. As Mark Munro, Senior Fellow and Policy Director at Brookings, puts it, ?anxiety about robots?like their physical distribution?will also likely have its own geography.?
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