Robots in aerospace industry

• Leonid B. Sobolev Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3697-7799

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46925//rdluz.36.16

Keywords: robotics, industrial robots, service industries, aerospace industry, vehicles

Abstract

Robotization is a logical continuation of computerization and automatization of industrial and service processes on previous stage of world-wide economy’s evolution development. Before, automatic machines with computer numerical control and automatic lines have replaced workers with completing many typical production operations by doing it with more speed and accuracy. In development of automatization, industrial and service robots have additional sensors (analogues for human senses’ organs), and they can choose the program of built-in computer, depending on operators’ commands in regime of remote control or sensors’ signals in autonomous regime. Robotization with computerization and automatization is a necessary part of fourth industrial revolution, in which world-wide economy is. Robots are already working everywhere: in industrial workshops, on farmlands, in hospitals and in replacing “labor” resource with “capital” resource, because such replacement has economic value. The goal of this article is analysis the use of robots in world-wide aerospace industry and robotization impact on the labor market.

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