| |9 July 2019HIGHERReviewtion issue? What are the skills need-ed to tackle this monumental shift in the technology? Who will be the engineers have value in this emerging automated world?We will still need engineer who can deal with the new systems. Just like the early 20th century there was a shift from farm work to factory work. Therefore, almost every sec-tor will need new kinds of workers: those who can design automation and robotics; and those who can adapt and maintain the new equipment. Millions of new jobs will be creat-ed over the next decade as a direct result of automation and artificial intelligence, according to Forrester Research. But the career opportu-nities for this newly emerging field required interdisciplinary knowledge of hardware, software and firmware. Industry, therefore, is looking for the graduate engineers with specialized futuristic courses like Robotics En-gineering, Cyber security Engineer-ing, Cloud Computing engineering. which differ widely from the conven-tional engineering courses.Research firm International Data Corp's (IDC) recently predicts 35 percent of leading organizations in logistics, health, utilities, and re-sources will explore the use of robots to automate operations by 2019.India is an upcoming potential market for this robotics and auto-mation industry with a worldwide market share of approximately 15 per cent. Robots can also be effective in areas where shortage of skilled man-power. Significant application op-portunities exist in the emerging ro-botics sectors, from production line robots to specialized robots in the medical, military, and automotive in-dustries. The future of robotics engi-neering will certainly offer a range of opportunities for professionals enter-ing the field. It is a fact that, whether people like it or not, the robots are advancing steadily and threatening to change everything in their path. The IDC predicts that investment on robotics will grow at a rate of 22.8 percent per year over the next 4 years as technology advancements enable companies to deploy robots in new areas outside of the more traditional industrial manufacturing processes. But people in India are not very much aware of robots as they rarely come across them in day to day life. People see them as a part of industrial workforce or in movies or in articles and magazines related to it. So they have myths or misconceptions about robots which they gather from unre-liable sources and further propagated by media. Robots are often portrayed in film as similar looking to human (called humanoid) which in reality is hard-ly used because of inconvenience. People got a believe that robots have became more intelligent than human as with AI machines besting people at chess, trivia, and other mental competitions, which is not true al-ways. Machines are programmed to learn from human experiences, rec-ognize patterns and respond to unfa-miliar situations are other necessary measures of intelligence, and ro-bots haven't caught up to us in those categories yet.While it is true that increased automation will lead to the extinc-tion of many jobs from bank tellers to telemarketers and this issue may blow out of proportion. But, histo-ry of civilization teaches that future technological development is also play a hand in job creation.However, Government needs to establish clear policies and measures to guarantee employment and ensure that this revolution does not affect our economy. Also it needs some investments from the government or its subsidiary bodies to survive the robotics industry. Government of In-dia has already started encouraging with high budget allocation to help research and skilling in Robotics, AI and IoT, among others. Few entre-preneurs have just started manufac-turing robots in India. But this needs a lot more to come up and invest big brands of India to achieve the success of "make in India" robot.While we may not foresee the fu-ture, one thing can say for sure robots are here to stay, they are improving fast, and are going to change our fu-ture, which will eventually have need of a huge number of skilled young professionals in 2020 and beyond.The future of robotics engineering offers a range of opportunities for professionals entering the field
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