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"Charter of Robotics" published
The European mechanical engineering association EUnited has published a charter for future cooperation between robots and humans and identified ten areas of action. The overriding principle: the focus is on people.
The 'Good Work Charter' supports the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 and defines ten focus areas to shape the workplace of the future. "The increasingly automated and data-driven economy requires changes in the world of work that need to be shaped by employers, employees and national governments," says Nobel Laureate Sir Christopher Pissarides, Co-Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work (IFOW) in London. "Industry can contribute to this development by ensuring that its workers are equipped with the skills and knowledge to succeed in the new economy."
The European Charter explicitly focuses on people: focus area 1 states that robots should relieve workers of repetitive tasks that are unreasonable due to their monotony - employees should work like people and not like machines. Focus area 2 describes that robots should always serve humans and not vice versa. The European robotics industry thus stands for a 'human-in-command approach'. The other focus areas deal with the development of skills, human-robot collaboration, simple machine operation, initiatives specifically for young people and strategies for coping with demographic change. "2.7 million industrial robots in global production and the boom of service robots outside factories are rapidly changing the way we work," says EUnited Robotics Chairman Wilfried Eberhardt. "In order to actively shape this change, the European robotics industry has developed the 'Good Work Charter' and identified ten fields of action that we must now address. The top priority is and remains that humans will always play a central role in the workplace."
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