Rise of the robots: What advances mean for workers - BBC News

Emitting a gentle whirring noise, it travels across the warehouse floor while two arms raise or lower themselves on scissor lifts, ready for the next task. Each arm has a camera on its knuckle. The left one eases a cardboard box forward on the shelf, the right reaches in and extracts a bottle. Hitachi showcased it in 2015 and hopes to be selling it by 2020. It is broadcast on the BBC World Service.