It's becoming increasingly popular to bring robots and AI into the classroom, as educators try to equip the next generation with skills that will be increasingly in demand a decade from now.

AI had appeared in Hollywood movies before, often in the form of robots. But the fear of a computer becoming self-aware, and making decisions that were bad for humans, was a new and terrifying one.

If robots take your job, don’t panic — just be ready to cook, care, sing or farm. That’s the future envisioned by Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu, who believes artificial intelligence won’t ...