Rise of Robots and AI in the Coronavirus Era

The outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, that began in Wuhan, China, has turned into a global pandemic. Pandemics are not just passing tragedies of sickness and death. The omnipresence of such mass-scale threats, and the uncertainty and fear that accompany them, lead to new behaviors and beliefs. People become both more suspicious and less willing to engage with anything that seems foreign or strange.