Alibaba launches robo-porter, Japan hires disabled people to operate robots

Alibaba launches robo-porter, Japan hires disabled people to operate robots

There’s plenty of debate surrounding the impact that robotics and artificial intelligence will have on the job sector. Among reams of recent reports, the World Economic Forum this month predicted that many middle-class professionals are at risk from the technologies, despite a global net gain of 58 million jobs by 2022.

Looking east, the Asia Development Bank paints a similarly positive picture, while a PwC report predicts that China will benefit most from the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

However, two news items from China and Japan have emerged this week that typify the complicated relationship between emerging technologies and traditional notions of […]

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