Inside the Weird World of Robots as Billionaires Buy Bots to Blow Their Tea Cold

The world of robots – most notably artificial intelligence – appears to be developing and growing quicker than ever, with many opportunities to invest from the ultra wealthy. There are many cool gadgets and wacky robots on the market now. Some provide genuine technological advancements and even an opportunity to overtake human workers. While others confuse the majority of consumers – including a robot that will cool down your tea and coffee for you by essentially “blowing” your beverage. Ilia Badeev, head of data science at Trevolution Group, has had his say on the future of robots in out society.

He said: “You can see self-driving robots already replacing delivery staff, chatbots taking over some customer support tasks or even robot lawnmowers buzzing and trimming grass that used to be mowed by the neighbourhood teens. It’s an inevitable trend that will slowly but surely ‘take over’ most of the less-qualified roles from human hands.”I’m fairly certain housekeeping roles will be the first ‘to go’. Unless you have formed an emotional bond with your help, most of the manual labour, that is often repetitive, will soon be automated. “We no longer wash our dishes or laundry by hand, so why do we think picking up LEGOs, loading the said dishes or laundry, dusting, vacuuming or taking out the garbage will be any different?” Continue reading here.