Catherine Thorbecke, Columnist

AI Robots Are Coming, and They’ll Be Made in Asia

The region’s tech companies are uniquely positioned to take the technology far beyond chatbots.

Nice to meet you. AI robots are coming.

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Over the past year, I’ve noticed an overwhelming theme emerge when Asian tech leaders look at what comes next for artificial intelligence. There has been a marked desire to move beyond chatbots and software, and into the physical realm.

We’ll start to see much more AI-enabled hardware and robotics — and it will be coming from Asia.