Mallika Dureja
According to a study that was recently published in the scholarly journal PLOS ONE, it is predicted that by the end of the next decade, robots will be responsible for at least 39% of the time that is currently spent on domestic labour and providing care to people. At least 27 percent of these jobs would be automated within the next five years.
The researchers from the UK and Japan found that grocery shopping will be the most automated in the next ten years, cutting nearly sixty percent of the time that is presently spent on the task. This was discovered after consulting with sixty-five artificial intelligence (AI) specialists. The least amount of automation will occur in the care provided to children and senior residents.
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Researchers from the University of Oxford and Ochanomizu University found that humans are most dependent on AI for unpaid household labour, with the use of robot vacuum cleaners becoming the most popular in the world. [Citation needed] At the present time, people devote the equivalent of 43% of all the time they spend working or studying to performing routine housework. The research to forecast the future of ‘domestic machines’ included contributions from 59 AI specialists from the United Kingdom and 36 AI specialists from Japan.
According to the findings of the study, male experts in the UK had a more positive attitude towards domestic automation than their female counterparts, whereas the situation was the complete contrary in Japan.
Physically caring for children was found to be the least automatable task (21 percent), but overall care work had an average estimate of 28 percent in ten years. On the other hand, housework is considered to be more readily automatable (44 percent).
This distinction arises as a result of the fact that “routine” or technical work is more amenable to being automated than “non-routine” work, particularly work that requires involvement with other people. According to the specialists, it is significantly more challenging to automate tasks that require the use of abilities like problem solving and communication.
