Rise of the robots raises a big question: what will workers do?

Rapid developments in AI are forcing managers and politicians alike to confront profound questions about the future of jobs

With a low electrical hum, a small team of boxy, wheeled robots called “ants” criss-cross the top of a giant 3D grid of grey storage crates – 60,000 of them - ceaselessly arranging and rearranging them to order.

Down on the warehouse floor, flat-topped “ranger” robots ferry cardboard packing boxes around. Just one man, jokingly known as the robot whisperer, walks …

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