A Coruña, May 4 (EFE).- The general director of the robotics company MOV.AI, Motti Kushnir, has warned this Thursday that the lowest-income workers “will be replaced by robots in 15 years”, which he which is the main challenge of current companies, although he has qualified that the arrival of robots “like in Star Wars” to daily life will take at least 50 years.
The Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de A Coruña hosts today and tomorrow Ecosystems2030, the summit on technology and innovation that celebrates its third edition, the second in a row in A Coruña.
Motti Kushnir has wondered “how close we are to the Star Wars dream with robots in the next decade” and has ruled out that this is an imminent issue.
In fact, he believes that the closest humans come to Star Wars are laser guns, which Israel is about to introduce, “with each shot priced at $2, but it took 50 years to develop.” .
The arrival of robots in everyday life is a matter that he does not believe can be seen for at least another 50 years.
“A decade ago we were talking about the metaverse and autonomous vehicles, but look where we are now,” he declared, calling attention to the fact that “it’s not at all clear whether normal people want to use an autonomous vehicle.”
The process, as he has said, goes through development in the university, improvement in the military field and, later, the first step to companies before reaching consumers.
“If someone is waiting for a Tesla bot to do their laundry in the next decade, keep waiting,” he said.
However, Kushnir has mentioned the robots that currently work in logistics companies with large warehouses such as Amazon, where 1.1 billion employees would be needed just to move pallets, so electronic devices are beginning to “replace operators ”.
“Watch out for your low-income workers because they are going to be totally replaced in the next 15 years. We must think about how we can train them and see what to do with them, perhaps the maintenance of these robots”, he warned those present about what he thinks is the main “challenge” of today.
In the afternoon session, a panel on sustainability was also held, in which the representatives of Airbus, Arteria AI or Krohne Group have demanded to “think about each step of the ladder” and work “without fear” in this aspect.
Sustainability must be much more than industrial innovation, since it implies thinking about people and artificial intelligence plays a key role in this aspect.
“It has to be integrated into everything we do, not just use it as a framework,” presenter Nikki Eberhardt summed up the term.
Saeed Al Dhaheri, from the University of Dubai, has reflected on the “ethical impacts” of technological evolution and has appealed to analyze these types of issues.
The latest activity, on the future of data privacy, has brought together various experts together with the director of the Agency for Technological Modernization of Galicia (Amtega), Julián Cerviño, who has influenced the large number of issues it handles the Xunta and its integrity must be ensured in the event of possible risks or leaks.