- Manual workers have found their own way of stopping the robot’s rise, sabotage
- Study by De Montfort University compared UK’s use of robots to Norway
- It found that UK workers are particularly adverse to the introduction of the intelligent machines into the work place
UK workers are sabotaging and assaulting workplace robots in an attempt to stop them taking their jobs, finds study.
It’s a common science fiction depiction of the future, artificial intelligence overthrows the human race.
But for some manual workers they have found their own ways of stopping the robots’ rise to world domination – by confusing them.
The study by De Montfort University in Leicester which looked into the use of robotics in healthcare concluded that UK workers are particularly apposed to the introduction of the intelligent machines into the work place.