For more than five years, Chris Moehle has served as managing director of The Robotics Hub in Pittsburgh. Chris Moehle’s interests include identifying and providing organizational and funding support for startups ready to launch new and advanced robotics.
With fast-paced technological advances in engineering, energy storage, automation, and artificial intelligence, and the incorporation of these technologies into machines (robots) to perform functions that previously could only be performed by humans, robotics is progressing at a faster pace. Over the past two decades, the global population of robots has tripled, and machines assist humans with about 30 percent of tasks today. Based on current trends, the global stock of robots potentially could grow even faster in the next two decades.
Robotics and automation are expected to drive new and better employment opportunities that will involve minimal dangerous physical labor and like tasks poorly suited to humans. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), robots will help create 97 million new jobs as humans and robots work together in the future.
