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UN recruits robots to help achieve global goals

By Reuters
27 July 2023   |   5:37 am
Dozens of robots, including several humanoid ones, will appear at a conference organized by the U.N. technology agency in Switzerland to showcase their potential to help reach a series of increasingly improbable global goals.

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