Dhaka, April 27 -- Recently, I accompanied a high-level Bangladeshi delegation on a visit to Beijing's E-Town area, which is now home to more than 300 robotics companies and a complete industrial chain.

In just half an hour, several members of the delegation - including advisers to Bangladesh's new government and members of parliament - were immersed in what felt like a real-life "world of the future." They shook hands with robots, watched them dance and make coffee, and even held a conversation with a humanoid robot named "Einstein."

A young student leader, Md Amanullah Aman, filmed almost every moment of the visit to the robotics exhibition center. He told me he planned to take the video back to Bangladesh to show his friends and clas...