How robots are going to change our world for the better

How artificial intelligence and robots will radically transform the global economy, writes Kevin Maney

The world’s first robot chef will be launched by Moley in 2018. It will have unlimited access to chefs and their recipes worldwide.

NEXT time you stop for petrol at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie.

Yeah, your automated petrol pump killed a lot of jobs over the years, but its biography might give you hope that the coming wave of automation driven by artificial intelligence (AI) will turn out better for almost all of us than a lot of people seem to think.