We’ve been hearing a lot lately about how robots could possibly be taking jobs away from humans in the future, and another piece of research has just emerged with further findings after questioning British workers.
The creation of robots to replicate human activities is a relatively tough task – as shown in the recent DARPA robotics challenge – but a group of researchers at MIT have integrated a closer human contribution to a robot they are creating.
Such a device will cost between £120 to £500 for a robotic vacuum cleaner, compared to hiring a cleaner to clean a two bedroom house can cost as much as £1470 per year, suggests new research that also shows how popular such devices are becoming for us busy Brits.
The globe has entered a "second machine age" that will see more than half of the world's jobs occupied by robots in the near future, according to scientists working at MIT and Oxford University.
According to Deloitte, some 35 per cent of UK jobs are at considerable risk of being made redundant by technology and/or robotics in the next 20 years.
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