The pandemic speeds up the rise of robots

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As a pandemic grips the world, a person could be forgiven if they had forgotten about another threat to humanity’s way of life - the rise of robots.
For better or worse the robots are going to repalce many humans in their jobs, analysts say, and the coronavirus is speeding up the process.
’'People usually say they want a human element to their interactions but Covid-19 has changed that,’'says Martin Ford,a futurist who has written about the ways robots will be integrated into the economy in the coming decades.

知识点：
pandemic: 疫情
grip：席卷 抓住
forgive：原谅
robot：机器人
analyst：分析人士
coronavirus：新冠状病毒
process：进程
element：元素
interaction：
futurist：未来学家
decade：十年

sb could be forgiven for sth/doing sth 某人做某事情有可原
crime against humanity 危害人类罪
the rise of 崛起
for better or worse 无论好坏
human element = humanity 人性
be integrated into 融进
European integration 欧洲一体化