3 takeaways from our Davos panel on the future of robotics

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Robotics showcase at WEF Davos
5 AI and trade experts at Davos share their thoughts on the future of Robotics.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool

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Martin Luther King Jr. fought for both racial and economic equality.

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Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI isn't overhyped — the biggest gains from automating corporate work are still ahead

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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the America Business Forum at Kaseya Center in Miami on November 06, 2025.
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says AI isn't overhyped because the real payoff — automating the costly, boring backbone of business — is only just getting started.

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The AI pay boost could peak sooner than you think, professor says

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Ioana Marinescu suggested that we may already be approaching the point where AI begins to suppress wages.

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Why AI giants keep axing tech jobs

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg goes for a run wearing the new Oakley Meta Vanguard glasses after presenting the new line of smart glasses, during the Meta Connect event at the company's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg getting lean in Silicon Valley

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Leaked Amazon Plans Say Robots Will Help It Avoid Hiring 600,000 Workers

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Agility Digit robot at an Amazon warehouse.

I spent 4 nights at a robot hotel in Tokyo. The future of hospitality is here — but it still needs fine-tuning.

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Yotel Tokyo Ginza is a hybrid-robot hotel that opened earlier this year.

Michelle Gross

Google Cloud's CEO says he doesn't buy into the hype that AI is going to automate everyone's jobs

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Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, weighed in on the AI hype.

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This is the job OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he'd do if AI ever replaces him

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Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin
Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, photographed in Berlin

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I got a $99 massage from an AI robot and will probably never do it again. Here's why, and what surprised me the most.

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Remedy Place is a social wellness club in NYC, and it is just one of the many places in the US that offer AI massages.

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