Industrial robots are bringing jobs back home, but not for low-skilled workers – World Economic Forum

An example (see Economist, 2017) is the sports clothing producer Adidas, which has reshored production to Germany and the US from China and India; only 160 jobs were thus created compared to more than 1000 in a typical Asian factory. Robots instead of workers are now doing the knitting, cutting and additive manufacturing, etc. However, machines are not yet able to put the lace into the shoes, humans are still required to do these tasks. Aside, mostly higher-skilled workers do nowadays work in the factories, for example machine engineers.