Meet Betty of Milton Keynes, Britain's first robotic office manager

Betty is part of the 7.2 million EU-funded STRANDS project where robots are learning how to act intelligently and independently in real-world environments while understanding 3D space. Although Betty's creators say the programmes are designed to create robots which will'clean floors in MacDonalds' or stocktake experts have warned that jobs will be lost because of AI. Richard Susskind, an Oxford professor who has advised governments around the world, recently told the Hay Festival that computers will soon outperform even the best professionals. He said: "It's no longer science fiction. In our view a lot of these technologies will be coming through in the 2020s. "We're not saying that doctors are going to be replaced overnight, we're not even saying in the 2020s, but we are saying that the practical impact of artificial intelligence research coming out of research laboratories is remarkable.