Maybe it is time we all learnt to love the robots, just as many Asians do. In the west, robots receive a terrible press. We worry about them killing our jobs, if not wiping out all of humanity, having been reared on too many Terminator movies and fears of a rogue superintelligence.
In Asia, though, it is a different story. Robots appear far more popular where they are most commonly used, such as in Japan, South Korea and China.
In contrast with the doom-laden economic analysis of many western think-tanks about the looming threat of technologically induced unemployment, the Asian Development Bank published a report last week arguing that the rise of the robots was creating, rather than destroying, jobs overall.
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