Training Nigeria’s youth in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) will eventually give Nigeria forex earnings. This is because companies in the Western world have a demand for affordable robotics and AI products and Nigeria is in a good position to provide such.

This is the position of Dr Olusola Ayoola, a robotics and AI expert, and founder of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Nigeria (RAIN).

Dr Ayoola explained to Tribune Online that while he was in the United Kingdom working for the University of Manchester and Forth Engineering Ltd, he observed that the engineering company outsourced robotics contracts to China because the Chinese were able to provide cheap labour, hence the cost of delivering such projects was lesser than doing same in the UK.

“In Nigeria, we also have cheaper labour compared to the UK which has a minimum wage that is higher than ours. If Nigerians can be trained on robotics and AI such that they are able to deliver products along these lines, we can start getting businesses from UK companies and earn ourselves much needed foreign exchange,” Dr Ayoola said.

Furthermore, the university lecturer explained that because Nigeria is an English-speaking country, prospective clients from the English-speaking West will not have to deal with the challenge of language barrier as the Chinese contractors often wrote operation manuals in Chinese.

Dr Ayoola added that in Nigeria, Ibadan to be precise, a training centre for robotics and AI developed by RAIN which will provide young Nigerians opportunities from internship and research to product development, would soon take off.

He called on the government at various levels and individuals to support the initiative which will help put Nigeria at the forefront of the latest IT revolution.

Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-nigeria-can-earn-forex-from-robotics-ai-%E2%80%95-expert/?fbclid=IwAR2UhPgFu2H5vcpTk5x2vNxejIo2JNTInOAJX2AEO7a2bdKo6EAlAeWcyog

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Lovely Initiative! I pray it sails!

Robotics Training is good..
But Nigeria do not have steady electricity compared to China...

Should have started yesterday.

Hmm... what's the difference between forex and bet9ja?

Its okay

Nonsense.. how many Nigerians are rich today from forex trading

Nd u tink it can b cheaper than china

Lol

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It's good to read about more awareness in coding

Hmmm these are the topics that should be making front page

Renforce:
Hmm... what's the difference between forex and bet9ja?

Earn forex is totally different from trade forex

May be trade forex and betnaija

Nigeria working

joke

Earning is not Nigeria 's problem.

But how to manage WEALTH.

See how the federal, state and local government manage our PETRO-DOLLARS economy from the time crude oil was discovered in the Niger delta region?

Let's see how it goes

Renforce:
Hmm... what's the difference between forex and bet9ja?

Learn to read before commenting so you won't display your ignorance online

helinues:


Earn forex is totally different from trade forex

May be trade forex and betnaija

Really don't know shar... But I prefer 1x and

ufotty2001:
Nonsense.. how many Nigerians are rich today from forex trading

Read first before commenting, don't rush to comment so you won't display your ignorance online

Renforce:
Hmm... what's the difference between forex and bet9ja?

NASA

Interesting !

rottennaija:


Learn to read before commenting so you won't display your ignorance online

OK sir!

The guy is talking about earning foreign exchange, not your money trading forex .

But Nigeria is not wired naturally to do well in area like programmables and mechatronics, basic amenities like ordinary electricity is not available let alone mass productions of robots.

This country kills ideas.

Ok

Good one. Thanks you for bringing home something to favour the youth

Renforce:
Hmm... what's the difference between forex and bet9ja?

Some people are just so lazy to read.
They are always the ones that jump into conclusions and castigate people who takes their time to read before dishing out their opinions.

I will never exchange words with people on this forum again except for those who are here for constructive argument.