When and how will robots take over the world?

The year is 2035 and humanoid robots, powered by Artificial Intelligence, are part of everyday life. read more

Robots are taking over Earlier this month, Bank of America Merrill Lynch warned that 45pc of all manufacturing tasks would be automated within a decade, up from 10pc today. The International Federation of Robotics says the number of robots in factories across the world rose by 225,000 last year, and will rise even further in the coming years – and it is not just in manufacturing. read more

MIT roboticists Rodney Brooks and Cynthia Breazeal are each building robots that learn and interact with the world from "birth." Over the past 20 years, the biological approach has been gaining momentum, because the classical method has proved limited in its ability to respond to complex real-world scenarios. read more