there is empirical evidence for example that labourintensive manufacturing activities tend to be concentrated in countries with low labour costs while hightech industries are more likely to emerge in wealthy countries with access to a highskilled workforce this inter alia provides an explanation for the changing pattern of manufacturing employment across the world unido a it shows the use of industrial robots as part of the recent trend of automation across industries and indicates that increasing automation within certain industries plays a special role in the transformation of industrial development patterns through technological innovations