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How to use robots to handle the population decline?

Rumors are spreading around about the population decline worldwide, but we still see crowds at every crossroad when we are waiting for traffic lights, and we feel the number of people in the malls, parks, and museums.    What’s really going on?  “Global population growth reached a peak in 1962 and 1963 with an annual growth rate of 2.2%; but since then, world population growth has halved.” from ourworldindata.org The trends of decline seem unstoppable, no doubt, our future will be filled with elders, yet there are not enough energetic young people to serve them, how to deal with that? We will have to rely on technologies, especially robots. “The industrial robotics market is projected to grow from USD 15.7 billion in 2022 to USD 30.8 billion by 2027” according to a press from Yahoo finance. These numbers indicate a noticeable fact: robot technology is getting mature and is ready to serve more people. But there sits a roadblock between the robots and the autonomy, the powe...