Emerging Themes: Drones, Robotic Machines, and Driverless Cars

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Emerging themes
A Critical Evaluation of the identified themes and how they could affect operational and/or
strategic decision making necessary to shape organizations in the next five years
Drones
Drones have a very significant role that they play in various sectors in the United Kingdom
economy. They are an invention that has been in a position to revolutionize quite a number of
significant activities and processes that takes place in the United Kingdom economy. For
instance, drones have had the impact of reducing not only the cost but also the risk involved
when dealing with oils and gases.They improve at a very high percentage the safety, efficiency
as well as the cost of saving. This is so because statistics and logic shows that they have reduced
the extent with which an employee is often exposed to certain working conditions that are harsh
and could cause possible industrial hazards (Christaller et al, 2012 p.112)
In terms of inspection drones have also had an impact. Through a significant combination of
drones and some other traditional techniques drones have really revolutionized the inspection.
Wilson, 2018, p.117).Much lesser time and resources are spent in the case where drones are
selectively used in inspection than when other ordinary means of inspection are used. With the
use if drones, various particular defective areas are identified then fixed by either the drones or
maybe the use of some other rope access crews (McKinley, 2016 p.90).There are certain
instances with which drone inspection has been seen to very productive. In areas such as gas and
pipeline inspection, wildlife monitoring among others drones could play a very essential role in
inspections.
Moreover, drones could also be the future in the utility industry. This is in regard to inspection as
well as other forms of linear assets the tremendous 360 degree visualization (Grosman, 2016

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p.11). In recent years there has been the emergency of a much more complex and sophisticated
cloud-based visual assets forms of management systems that have played the role of acting as
repositories in the inspection and information storage as far as the use of drones is concerned.
In terms of delivery drones could be the future of delivery. Statistics show that drones could take
over delivery by the year 2030. This is so because of the various advantages associated with the
use of drones such as increased levels of efficiency, increased levels of customer satisfaction as
well as reduced costs of operations (Abbas, Di, Spinelli, 2018 p.323). Statistics also show that
more and more logistics and utility companies are investing on drones. The use of drones is
greatly preferred because of its unique nature and feature on not just dropping parcels where they
want to be dropped but rather their ubiquitous nature in warehousing and also the fact that drones
can conduct a real time stock and inventory check.
Robotic machines
Robotic machines have really had a very great impact as far as labor requirements are concerned
in the United Kingdom economy. There are a number of ways in which robotic machines have
influenced the economy (Mason, 2016 p.91).
First and foremost, the rise of robotic machines has led to more job creation than ever in the
economy. Quite often it’s seen that robots are taking away jobs but the fact is that robots are
actually creating much more jobs but in this case they require much more skilled labor. The point
is that robots are replacing low-skilled labor and automating the tasks that these laborers were
doing (Tutu, 2017 p.40).This is very evident in various sectors in the economy, in the
manufacturing sector for instance, robots perform the tasks of stocking, transporting as well as
sorting of materials. What is more important, however, is that in as much as robots replace the