Topic: robots

According to the legend, Mauryan king Asoka battled with android warriors guarding Buddha's relics, and ultimately reigned over the army of automatons himself.

Sex robots, virtual reality (VR) environments and feedback devices are being developed that could take the place of human partners.

The number of robots at work reached record levels in 2018. But high tech and high employment don’t have to be mutually exclusive in the future.

Robots haven’t yet taken all our jobs, says new World Bank report, and Brazil President Bolsonaro moves to keep his poll promises.

A WEF study predicts that 54% of employees of the world’s large companies will need significant re- and up-skilling as robots take up more jobs.

Economists warn that routine tasks like assembly-line manufacturing or traditional office work are increasingly automated.

In the not-so-far future, people won’t know things we now think are essential to being “educated”: How to write in cursive, how to multiply and divide on paper, or how to spell most English words. And the forgetting of skills is only going to continue as technology advances.

The world is witnessing the fourth industrial revolution and Børge Brende says India needs to bolster its investment in infrastructure to take advantage of it.

Maruti Suzuki has one robot for every four factory workers. Firms like Eicher and Bajaj also use robots in a quest for efficiency and cost-cutting. About 100 mln Indians enter the workforce every month. Has India entered the manufacturing race too late? We ask experts Manish Sabharwal, Amitabh Kant, R.C. Bhargava.