Public suspicion of robots is stopping France from becoming a world leader in the field, the French Academy of Technologies has said.
The academy urged the government to create a dedicated robotics taskforce in a statement on 10 July.
“In France, anti-robot discourse stimulates anxiety and misunderstandings for some people, leading to the spread of negative ideas that can be highly destructive [to the robotics industry],” the statement said.
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