A surge in robots replacing human workers is expected in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Firms have already started speeding up automation and more are planning to use machines rather than people to climb out of the economic collapse.

One company executive described Covid-19 as “a time to automate and take labour out of the equation”. A survey of company bosses shows two-thirds of employers have speeded up automation or are re-writing plans because of the epidemic.

The Unite union has warned hundreds of thousands of jobs could be lost in a “wave of permanent cuts”. An Oxford University study before the epidemic had already predicted 35 per cent of all UK jobs, from office workers to nursing and construction, were at risk from automation

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