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If you’re in a job performing tedious tasks, you might think that a robot could do the work instead. But perhaps we underestimate how much technology already helps with the activities that we would otherwise have to do.  And as artificial intelligence progresses we might find it replaces us in the workplace altogether.

如果您从事的工作是执行繁琐的任务，您可能会认为机器人可以代替这项工作。 但也许我们低估了技术已经对我们本来必须做的活动有多大帮助。 随着人工智能的进步，我们可能会发现它在工作场所完全取代了我们。

For now, robotic technology is providing a helping hand for businesses, particularly in manufacturing, assisting humans in performing work more efficiently and sometimes more accurately. For online shopping, for example, robots have become essential in giant warehouses. They sort and move millions of objects of all different shapes and sizes, although humans are still needed to pick and distribute the goods.

目前，机器人技术正在为企业（尤其是制造业）提供帮助，帮助人类更高效、有时甚至更准确地完成工作。 例如，对于在线购物，机器人已成为巨型仓库中必不可少的部分。 尽管仍然需要人类来挑选和分发货物，但它们对数以百万计的各种不同形状和大小的物体进行分类和移动。

The advancement of robotics in the workplace is good for some businesses; the ones who research, develop, build and use them. The British government estimates that by 2035, artificial intelligence could add around £630bn to the UK economy. But there are still tasks that robots can’t yet do, and that’s the challenge for companies such as Automata. Its co-founder, Suryansh Chandra, told the BBC that his technology will eliminate boring, 

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