OUR ROBO-WORLD!

With autonomous robots expected to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, perform surgeries, and serve food in restaurants, AI-powered machines in China are redefining technology and ways of life simultaneously to create an age and stage where they might even have the ability to express love and emotion

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Since it opened in June 2012, a restaurant in Harbin, China, has gained fame by using robots to cook meals and deliver dishes.

The robots can work continuously for five hours after a two-hour charge and are able to display more than 10 expressions on their faces and say basic welcoming sentences to customers.

The world's first raspberry-picking robot is also attempting to harvest one of the fruits after sizing it up for an age, plucking the fruit with its gripping arm and gingerly placing it into a waiting punnet.

The whole process takes about a minute for a single berry.

It seems like heavy going for a robot that cost £700,000 to develop but, if all goes to plan, this is the future of fruit picking with each one being able to pick more than 25,000 raspberries a day, outpacing human workers who manage about 15,000 in an eight-hour shift.

Sitting in China, a French doctor performed prostate cancer surgery on a patient in Morocco, 12,000 kilometers away.

The doctor used a Chinese-made robot to carry out the surgery.

On November 16, Youness Ahallal completed the surgery in under two hours, with a one-way latency of just over 100 milliseconds.

This intercontinental surgery has set a record for the world's longest remote surgery ever performed, with a round-trip transmission distance surpassing 30,000 kilometers, according to Xinhua News Agency.

The surgery was carried out with the help of the Toumai Robot, which allowed for precise control and high-definition imaging from a remote location in real time.

Recently, the video of an incident went viral on social media where the smaller Artificial Intelligence-powered robot successfully persuaded 12 other robots to quit their jobs.

The AI robot Erbai, which abducted 12 other robots, was developed by a Hangzhou robot manufacturer.

Erbai kidnapped the other 12 robots at a Shanghai robotics showroom.