Super-smart robots will outnumber humans by 2050

Masayoshi Son, CEO of mobile company Softbank, has predicted that there will be more smart robots helping humans than there will be people on Earth by 2040. The Japanese businessman also claimed that 1 trillion microchips designed for the so-called internet of things (IoT) will be delivered around the world over the next 20 years. Mr Son, also CEO of IoT software company ARM, made the comments at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona today. He went on to say that the number of microchip'brain cells' will overtake the number of human neurons in 2018. CEO and chairman of mobile company Softbank and its IoT subsidiary ARM Masayoshi Son (pictured here with Softbank robot'Pepper' in 2014) announced at the World Mobile Congress that ARM will deliver a trillion microchips designed for the internet of things by 2040 Although the term'Internet of Things' (IoT) first appeared in 2005, there is still no widely accepted definition. The phrase'IoT' often refers to devices or sensors - other than computers, smartphones, or tablets - that connect, communicate or transmit information over the web.