article_snippet: A recent report by management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group predicted by 2025 the number of 'automatable' tasks will rise to 25 per cent.
article_snippet: This will lead to robots replacing many human jobs - and is a trend that has already begun in Japan.
article_snippet: According to Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a research fellow in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies,  care for the elderly and even children are among the jobs to be replaced by artificially intelligent beings within the next 50 years.
article_snippet: Her research suggests human workers across a plethora of service sectors and caring professions could be replaced by droids within our lifetimes.
article_snippet: Her believes that as the rapid advances in technology achieved this century are projected to continue at an astonishing rate, this will allow robots to break free of science fiction and establish robots in our everyday life.
article_snippet: According to Her research - which polled 2,000 people about which jobs they thought were most unpopular and could be among the first to be given to robots for the TC channel Syfy - traffic wardens (65 per cent), estate agents (40 per cent) and car salesman (33 per cent) could soon be lost to history.