The construction industry is ready for disruption — and that disruption is at its doorstep. Recent reports point to automation displacing nearly 3 million construction workers in the next 40 years. And as more companies develop and hone robotics and AI systems geared toward easing the industry’s well-documented productivity problem, that momentum is expected to hold for the foreseeable future.
While the automation stands to be a boon for productivity, technological innovations in AI and advances in automation also promise to increase worker safety.
