Sri Lanka, July 27 -- The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and robots in the future Sri Lankan economy has not been properly analysed, but it may be a subject for more than one article due to the vast scope of the issues involved. We could, however, make a start by taking a look at how other countries have made adjustments to the new economy that is transforming fast due to AI and robot-aided technology.

In China, they say that some factories are so robot-tech intensive that there are no lights on in the factories most of the time, as the robots doing some of the repetitive and non-repetitive tasks do not need lights. China is, anyway, a particularly tech-intensive culture these days. In some ways, Chinese tech-innovation at least as...