As we suggested above, current advances in robotics are by and large associated with
applications that are highly specialized and that are focused on end-user applications rather than
on the innovation process itself and these advances do not seem as of yet to have translated to a
more generally applicable IMI. Robotics is therefore an area where we might focus on the
impact of innovation (improved performance) and diffusion (more widespread application) in
terms of job displacement versus job enhancement. We see limited evidence as yet of
widespread applications of robotics outside industrial automation, or of the scale of
improvements in the ability to sense, react to, and manipulate the physically environment that the
use of robotics outside manufacturing probably requires.
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