In Greece to take part in the Digital Disruption Sessions during the Delphi Economic Forum, the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics Andra Keay agreed to an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency about the coming “robot age” and its implications for our lives. As she stressed in the interview, despite some spectacular technological advances that have been made, the picture in ordinary households is resolutely less spectacular and the days when there will be a robot in every home are still some decades away.
She also dismissed scenarios that robots will deprive people of jobs, predicting that they will actually create new jobs that do not necessarily require high levels of expertise. As she pointed out, most robots need maintenance and good care, while in some cases they will continue to need human operators.
Andra Keay is the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics, an industry group supporting the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. She is also founder of Robot Launchpad for startups, and cofounder of Robot Garden, a new robotics hackerspace.
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