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Agents & robotics

What Work Can Robots Do?

An occupational task framework for understanding where robotics could change the economy.

Publisher
Anthropic
Publication
September 30, 2026
Length
44 pages
Language
English
£299 GBP

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What Work Can Robots Do?

2026 / RESEARCH

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About this report

This research separates what robots can physically do from what it is economically practical to automate. It constructs a task-based exposure index, relates robot capabilities to occupations and examines how cost, operating environments, dexterity, preferences and regulation constrain adoption. The paper also compares exposure to robots and language models and looks at historical wage and employment patterns. Use it to assess robotics claims and workforce implications without treating technical task coverage as a prediction that whole jobs will immediately disappear.

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Who it is for

  • People and workforce leaders
  • Investors and market researchers
  • Researchers and analysts

Inside this report

  1. A task-based index of robot exposure
  2. Occupations and physical capability coverage
  3. Costs and barriers to real-world deployment
  4. Overlap with language-model exposure
  5. Historical employment and wage patterns
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