Topic: robots

Most tech companies are focusing on replacing people with AI with an eye on short-term profits instead of using it to create new tasks for humans for long-term growth.

New research shows more than 70 per cent of the jobs deemed to be at high risk are held by women.

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.