Here come the robots: Davos bosses brace for big technology shocks


  • TECH
  • Thursday, 21 Jan 2016

HUBO, a multifunctional walking humanoid robot performs a demonstration of its capacities next to its developer Oh Jun-Ho, Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2016. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich

DAVOS, Switzerland: Implantable mobile phones. 3D-printed organs for transplant. Clothes and reading-glasses connected to the Internet. 

Such things may be science fiction today but they will be scientific fact by 2025 as the world enters an era of advanced robotics, artificial intelligence and gene editing, according to executives surveyed by the World Economic Forum (WEF). 

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