Robotics Impact on Neurosurgery Employment

This report investigates the effects of rising robotics adoption in the neurosurgery field on future job prospects. It examines the economic implications of automation, including potential job displacement and the need for workforce adaptation. The research methodology involves a review of scholarly and non-scholarly sources, including interviews and data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Findings indicate a negative impact on job availability for neurosurgery students, highlighting the need for government regulation and the development of specialized skills to remain competitive in a changing job market. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of fostering creativity, problem-solving skills, and adaptability to navigate the challenges posed by increased automation.

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How the Increased Use of Robotics in the Neurosurgeon Industry Impact the Future of Work
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Executive Summary
There is a growing usage of robotics in the neuroscience/neurosurgery healthcare
industry. This growing robotic usage is expected to have significant impacts on the future of
work. This proposal is thus important in outlining the steps to be taken by the students,
governments and other affected groups. In the recent years, the number of robotics used in many
economies have gone up and will be discussed in the research findings. A research will be
undertaken through the outlined methodology to show some of the direct and the indirect impacts
that the increased robotics use will have on the future of work. There are various stakeholders
who will be mostly be interested in this research paper such as the student’s, the employees and
the government. Various challenges will be identified and solutions will be provided on the
outcomes. The research paper have identified the reason for increased robotics use and how they
are expected to influence the economy’s performance in the future

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Table of Contents
Executive Summary........................................................................................................................2
Background.....................................................................................................................................4
Methodology..................................................................................................................................4
Outcomes.......................................................................................................................................5
Introduction....................................................................................................................................5
Findings..........................................................................................................................................5
Next Steps and Possible Policies.....................................................................................................7
Conclusion......................................................................................................................................8
Bibliography....................................................................................................................................9

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How the Increased Use of Robotics in the Neurosurgeon Industry Impact the Future of Work
Background
The advancements in technology has resulted in more efficient means of making work
easier. The use of robotics is one of the greatest invention that have been borne by such
advancements. Robots are machines that have been programmed to work as human beings. Since
they doesn’t require much supervision, their usage is so efficient; the robots do not need labor
payment, they do not eat or sleep; they are in operation 24/7 if programmed to do so. Although
their initial outlay for the introduction of robotics use in the businesses is very high, their
maintenance costs are lower. Since the robots are machines, their usefulness is extended to the
future. This is making it more attractive for robotics use to be incorporated in businesses. There
is an increased use of robotics in many developed world economies. However, this is creating a
challenge on the future of work. There is discrepancies on the impacts that the increasing
automation will have on the future for work. Some argue that it will have little impact on
employment, others argue that it will kill many repetitive jobs and thus many people will be
displaced from their jobs. Another group argued that it will result in creation of more jobs where
many workers will be employed including those that were displaced (Karsten and West, 2015).
Irrespective of the argument laid out, there is still uncertainty of what the future of work will be
with the increased competition by robotics.
Methodology
The main aim of this report is to identify the impacts of the increased use of robotics on
the availability of future jobs. This research will most likely affect the employees, employers, the
students and the government. The major concern however will be on how neurosurgical students
will adapt to the changing technology. The existing issues will be highlighted and various
resources will be used to give a clear insight on how such technological changes will have an
impact on neurosurgical students. It shall cover the human resources job allocation decisions and
how they will be influence in the future when the number of robotics will be on increased use.
The resources will also give information of the future projections made by various parties that
have analyzed this situation. The source of information for this research will be obtained from
scholarly and also from non-scholarly sources. An interview will be carried out to determine how
the students view the use of robots would impact their acquisition of jobs. Secondary data will be
obtained from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), commissioned reports, subjective

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journal articles and various websites. This report shall consider the empirical evidence provided
by other economists who have already done an analysis on the possible outcomes and will use
such evidence to bring logic to this research paper. The paper research shall also consider
information from other evidences that are not related to Australian technological impacts on job
future. The paper shall draw from the conclusion made on those evidences, reports and other
research papers and thus the information provided will be from a wide range of sources and thus
will be more reliable.
Outcomes
The increased usage of robotics have a negative impact on the availability of jobs to the
neurosurgeon students and other industries where the investment on robotics is taking place. The
medical profession make become less preferable since students may consider the future of their
jobs to be very uncertain. Students have to make course decisions that are not competing with the
usefulness of robots.
Introduction
The machines are becoming less costly compared to the labor costs; this is the case
especially for Australian economy where labor cost on the manufacturing industries are very
high. According to Watson (2017), the government should introduce new industrial strategies as
the society is being faced by profound unstoppable changes resulting from technological
advancements. This research is meant to create an insight of whether the increased use of
robotics is positively or negatively impacting the future of employees. Generally, the high labor
costs and other unavoidable factors are raising the need for capital intensive production. There is
a great shift from labor to capital intensive requirements. Literature reviews both theoretical and
empirical will be used to determine the usefulness of the increased use of robotics and how they
will impact the future of work. Primary and secondary data will be used to support the research
findings. The primary data will be obtained from firms that have already introduced the use of
robots in their work place. The data to be obtained will be mainly on the number of employees.
Answers will be requested for question such as; how many employees were employed before the
introduction of robotics? How have the number changed after the introduction? This will help in
a direct determination of the immediate impacts of the increased robotics use on employment.
Findings
How the Use of Robotics Relate with the Labor Supply

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Generally, there is a high rate of unemployment in Australia; this means that many
people are looking for jobs but no job vacancies are available for them. Economically, the
increased use of machines will increase the supply for labor. The labor market won’t be able to
adjust to the increase supply bearing the fact that there is a challenge of wage rigidity; thus, wage
rate which is the price for labor won’t be flexible to accommodate the supply changes. This will
result in the businesses choosing the option that the least cost is incurred. Given the high costs of
labor, the businesses are on a high probability expected to consider employing the capital
intensive production (robotics) and reduce the labor-intensive production (workers). Thus there
will be a loss of jobs to the workers (Muro and Andes, 2015). Robotics can do many tasks that a
human can do, thus, less workers will be required to do only the tasks that the robotics cannot
handle. Thus, it can be argued that the usage of robotics will make some employee’s jobs
redundant and since the companies cannot protect this jobs (Arntz, Gregory and Zierahn, 2016).
The government has to regulate the robotics use to make these companies responsible for their
workers.
Fig: The increased usage of robots by developed economies
Source: Muro and Andes (2015)
Germany is the leading user of robotics among the developed economies analyzed. The
graph represents the change that was experienced from 1993 to 2007. These are the ten major
robotics user; for all these countries, there has been an increment in the usage compared to 1993.

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Other than the reduction of production costs, robots are very useful in boosting productivity for a
business and that’s why investors may consider them over the laborers (Ford, 2017). However,
the complete transition from labor to capital could be detrimental to the Australian economy. The
question is; if robots were used to do all the task that humans could do? Which jobs will there for
the human beings? This question emphasizes on the need to lower the usage of robots so as to
protect the job future for the Australian population.
Bottom line
Robotics despite their usefulness, they should be used in limited number. There increased
usage will not be god for the economy in the future. Their implementation could only be
effective if they were regulated by the government. The number of students who should take the
training is undefined because this is a necessary requirement for every student who wants to
become competitive in the labor market.
Next Steps and Possible Policies
According to RelishCareers.com (2017), social skill are important skills that can
guarantee high paying jobs in the future even with the presence of robots. Generally, those
workers who possess highly specialized skill-sets are guaranteed some future job security as they
will be able to enter into highly specific areas. The decision to employ robots and lay off some
workers will be determined by the workers productivity. Workers who will be less productive
will be laid off whereas those with highly specialized skill-sets will not be replaced with robots.
The workers to be laid off will be considered to be less productive.
Holmes (2015) noted that the usage of robots will create jobs since they require
supervision, but the rate of job creation will be lower than that of job killing. He therefore
proposed the following to the students who want to be well equipped to compete for jobs with
the robots in the future. He claimed that the answer to these was to make human smarter than the
robots, this could be achieved by rethinking education where the human seek to develop skills
that are not replicable by the machines. Heath (2016) noted that there is a need for identification
of the future skills requirement and how these skills can be acquired. These skills include
ingenuity, problem solving and higher-order functions. This is by embracing the idea that
humans have unique creation and innovation gifts. Creativity and social intelligence are some of
the unique human abilities that needs to be cultivated. He also argued that the industrial
revolution system of education in not compatible with the machine age since it produced people

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of uniform citizenry–literate, interchangeable, and compliant. The cultivation of unique skills
require nurturing exceptionalism but not uniformity. Through this cultivation, the humans will be
able to do tasks that cannot be systematized or codified. In the short term, students who need to
get jobs in a robotic economy will be helped to do so by encouraging independent thinking and
promotion of creativity. Frey and Osborne (2015) noted that complex manual dexterity is yet
another skill that technology can’t replicate.
The complete change to a full robotic economy may take a century and thus the
uniqueness of the students may be helpful only on the short run. In the long run, the machines
will be advanced such that they will be able to carry out any task that a human can and do it
better; their future capability will exceed that of the human beings. Lindzon (2017) noted that
people who wish to be competitive for jobs in the future have to be ready to adapt to the ever
changing technology. The best solution is to accept the technological evolution to be our friend
and not our enemy; in that way, adaptation to such changes with be easier. Just like people
thought that the industrial revolution would take up all their jobs and this was not the case; the
industrial revolution led to an increased production of output that was sold at a lower price and
this benefited the people.
Conclusion
The use of robots is very beneficial to the neurosurgeon industry and thus cannot be
avoided. In fact, there should be a promotion for the use of the same. However, there should be a
limit set for companies not to exceed a certain number of robots and restrict their usage to only
tasks that can harm the human’s health and those that can maximize the social welfare. The
changing of students to be more creative and independent in thinking can only be able to prevent
job losses in the short term. In the long run, robots will be more advanced such that even those
with the best skills will be kicked out of their jobs. Problem solving skills and skills on Math or
science can help in keeping the skills up-to-day and thus raises the adaptability to the changing
technology. The increased usage of robotics despite the benefits delivered to the neurosurgeon
industry will harm the future of jobs. Many people will lose their jobs to the robotics, the
unemployment rate will be very high and detrimental to nation’s economic performance. It is
thus important for the government to implement a regulation on the usage of robots.

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