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As we’ve seen, the array of jobs available in such a broad variety of industries adopting robotics means that if you’re in the market for a great career, robotics can do a lot for you. 

Wherever robots are implemented, the opportunities multiply. This is not just true in the workplace but in lots of other areas of your life, too. Not only are robots ready to do even more for us, but you might also be surprised by the range of industries using robotics already, from factories and farms to hospitals and logistics operations. 

The examples below show how industries adopting robotics are creating new career paths for operators, technicians, specialists, and integrators.

Industries Adopting Robotics

Robots in Manufacturing

The area of ARM’s primary concern is manufacturing, which has seen tremendous growth in recent years, along with being the first industry to employ robots at large scale and remains one of the clearest examples of industries adopting robotics. 

We've all seen pictures of rows of robotic arms making cars and airplanes, but worker safety has also moved robots into other manufacturing areas. Welding is another perfect application for robots, as it can entirely avoid potential human danger, so it should be no surprise that it accounts for around 29% of the manufacturing robots currently on the job. Different manufacturing industries are adopting robotics as well, such as textiles, commercial painters, assemblers, fabricators, and more.

Robots in Agriculture

Since so much of farming involves routine jobs that robots can do more efficiently than any human, activities like surveying, tractor-driving, and cutting, pruning, and harvesting crops are all jobs currently done by robots. There are even robots involved in the wine-making business, helping maintain the vineyards and keeping the grapes plump and juicy. 

Robots in Logistics

Logistics is one of the industries using robotics to move, sort, retrieve, and manage products as they travel from warehouses to customers. If you ordered something from an online retailer, there’s a good chance that at least part of the journey of that item to your door was assisted by robots. 

You don’t even need to include the AI chatbots running on those retailers’ websites to see how many robots there are in the logistics industry, from monitoring the merchandise to fetching items to cleaning the delivery vehicles. Ordered something from Amazon lately? They currently have 200,000 robots working in their warehouses.

Robots in the Military

Keeping you safe right now are dozens of defense robots. The most common military robot is the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), conducting reconnaissance from extremely high altitudes. Military robotics programs also use unmanned robots in the detection and disposal of explosives in civilian areas or war zones, in addition to clearing minefields and venturing into otherwise dangerous terrain.

Robots in Healthcare

We don’t have to wait for the future to arrive to benefit from robots helping out in times of need. As we’ve seen in recent months, robots can be deployed to disinfect patient rooms efficiently and without the need for a human to risk infection (it’s like the robot vacuum you have at home, except supercharged).

Robots are also assisting in the routine monitoring of patients’ vital signs while nurse and physician attention can be directed to more pressing matters that require a human touch. Robots are great at repetitive, simple tasks, which makes them ideal for healthcare manufacturing, like the careful creation of vaccines. 

Robots Making Jobs

One of the best things robots are doing right now for us is creating opportunities for great careers as operators, technicians, and more. Create a profile on RoboticsCareer.org today and get started on an exciting career path in one of the many industries adopting robotics.