Brexit Britain Could Replace Migrants With Robots
- Automation providers ABB and Locus see bright future in U.K.
- Warehousing, food and drink sectors could lose out on EU labor
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In Brexit Britain, robots are booting up to fill jobs held by European migrants as Prime Minister Theresa May’s government prepares to cut immigration.
Wilmington, Massachusetts-based Locus Robotics intends to start selling an autonomous machine that whizzes around storehouses, delivering boxes from shelves to shipping bays, in Britain this year. ABB Ltd. of Switzerland supplies industrial robots to British pancake, poppadom and marshmallow producers. Fanuc Corp. of Japan, which makes computer-controlled machine tools for smartphone providers, plans to open a new U.K. plant in May.