Initiative for Global Prosperity

The recipient of an MBA in entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University, Chris Moehle has a background in robotics and venture capital. Chris Moehle currently serves as managing director of The Robotics Hub. It's the world’s first venture capital organization focused on emerging robotics breakthroughs. The Robotics Hub supports innovation with social impact and counts Global Maker Challenge and Global Prosperity as partners.

The Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Prosperity dedicates focus to uniting. It brings together leading manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and government agencies. Start-ups and philanthropists are others. The initiative honors community achievements. It also established the Global Marker Challenge, an open innovation platform. The goal is socio-economic impact addressing the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

The focus is empowering startups with the access and resources to tackle needed impact challenges. This aligns very well with the mission of the Robotics Hub. As such, the Robotics Hub is proud to support the Initiative.

Applying AI in The Classroom

As managing director of The Robotics Hub in Pittsburgh Chris Moehle coordinates investments that build and transform robotics startups. Chris Moehle's interests include augmented intelligence, which involves implementing smart technologies to work with humans instead of replacing them.

Augmented intelligence is about humans and artificial intelligence combining forces to accomplish tasks in a faster, more efficient manner. With augmented intelligence, jobs can be redesigned in ways that can help increase employee efficiency, satisfaction, and safety. This functionality efficiently can improve multiple sectors – such as sales, medicine, pharmacology, and education.

In schools, for instance, teachers spend significant amounts of time preparing for classes, grading assignments, and asserting control. These activities, although required, may not help individual students unleash their potential. Augmented intelligence can help teachers with grading and provide teachers insights on areas where students may need help, through functions such as displaying the amount of time a student spends on each question. With such insight, teachers can adopt a personalized, outcome-based approach by helping each student master areas where they are facing difficulties.

Robotics and Employment - Future Prospects

For more than five years, Chris Moehle has served as managing director of The Robotics Hub in Pittsburgh. Chris Moehle’s interests include identifying and providing organizational and funding support for startups ready to launch new and advanced robotics.

With fast-paced technological advances in engineering, energy storage, automation, and artificial intelligence, and the incorporation of these technologies into machines (robots) to perform functions that previously could only be performed by humans, robotics is progressing at a faster pace. Over the past two decades, the global population of robots has tripled, and machines assist humans with about 30 percent of tasks today. Based on current trends, the global stock of robots potentially could grow even faster in the next two decades.

Robotics and automation are expected to drive new and better employment opportunities that will involve minimal dangerous physical labor and like tasks poorly suited to humans. According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), robots will help create 97 million new jobs as humans and robots work together in the future.