Robots in the Developing World

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What impact is automation having on low-wage economies in Asia and Africa? Ed Butler meets the inventor of a robot that can stitch t-shirts together - a potential threat to the huge garment industries in places like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The BBC's Rahul Tandon reports from India on the impact robots are already having on the country's successful IT sector. And Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, tells us why automation might not be all bad news for emerging markets in Africa. (Photo: Sri Lankan workers make clothes at a garment factory in Colombo, Credit: Getty Images)