In recent years, the textile industry in Southeast Asia and South Asian countries to create a large number of local job opportunities, with a large population and low salaries of the South Asian countries hope that the population dividend can lead the country to economic prosperity, the World Bank estimates the next 20 years, South Asia will add 1.2 million a month Workers, 20 years after the new 240 million people, but the development of automation technology in the world will cause a huge impact.

It is reported that SoftWearAutomation in Atlanta, USA, is developing textile robots Sewbot, which can completely automate the entire garment manufacturing process, but it will take some time to achieve low cost and reliability to replace humans. India, a textile worker earns $ 1,200 a year, but now a cost of one hundred thousand dollars to a Sewbot, but the replacement of mankind is only a matter of time, when it will destroy the emerging countries of the economic development model.

South Korea, Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, which have a population dividend as the basis for economic growth, are more threatened. Indian economists argue that the destructive nature of robots and artificial intelligence is greater than the previous steam, electronics, assembly plant or computer revolution, because artificial intelligence replaces not only routine work, when the demographic dividend is about to become a nightmare for the population.

After 1980, the manufacturing industry grew very slowly, and even some industries also declined. From 2003 to 2009, employment growth in South Asia was only one-third of the overall economic growth level. The main reason was that the rapid progress of science and technology led to a large number of industries unemployment.

Over the past 30 years, the Indian IT service company has also begun to be affected by the automated cloud computing system. Infosys and TataConsultancyServices have started layoffs this year, introducing 400 robots in a modern car factory in Chennai, India, to replace a lot of manpower. India's technology industry, which is reluctant to name, also said that the unemployment situation in India's technology industry will be even worse, and his company has evaluated the introduction of artificial intelligence to replace half of its employees.

Textile industry bear the brunt, especially in the garment industry is heavily dependent on Bangladesh, 82% of total exports are clothes, 2.5% of the population engaged in garment production. Twenty-seven million people, including Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, are employed in the textile industry.

Now China's factory workers earn five times more money than Indian workers, close to the level of Portugal and South Africa. Another reason is that the production of a T-shirt is almost exactly the same as that of the 19th century automatic textile machine because it is difficult for the robot to pick up soft irregular cotton and move precisely, and manual sewing is made up of many tiny processes and decisions , So it is difficult to copy the software.

Sewing the four steps to pick up the items, align, sew and handle only the sewing has been automated and the rest is still done by humans. But Atlanta has developed sewing robots for Sewbot, in order to solve the problem of fine materials, they give the robot the same function as the eyes, just as engineers develop autopilot cars.

The camera shoots the stitched material to be analyzed and then guides the robot arm movement, Wal-Mart invests $ 2 million as part of the automatic production of the jeans program. Sewbot finished sewing in September this year, plans to expand to T-shirts next year, now 97% of the T-shirts produced outside the United States.

Why these large retailers have a large number of cheap labor also need robots? The reason is the speed, and now a production of 100,000 pieces of clothing, must be 9 to 12 months before the order to China, if the retailers want to be closer to the market, you can first Single 10,000, within a month can be delivered, first sent to the market test water temperature. Amazon submitted a patent in April, the content is on-demand manufacturing of clothing production automation technology.

However, the emerging economies of the labor economy rely on how to deal with the Indian finance minister that there is time, and now the textile robot to completely replace the labor may be 10 years or even 20 years, he believes that the robot becomes smart and cheap to replace human beings before the good training, Careful organization of free trade agreements, and labor market reforms can increase manufacturing opportunities.

Others believe that emerging countries should focus on the development of services, such as tourism, transportation, finance, to compensate for the loss of manufacturing supply. But if the country misses the opportunity, the social impact of automation will be enormous. PahleIndiaFoundation, a nonprofit organization in New Delhi, India, believes that all educated young people may be unemployed because of their automation, and that time is India's dream.