You've heard of Robocop, the fictional man-machine on a mission to lock human criminals away.

But experts fear the opposite will soon come true and it will be machines that end up becoming the criminals, leaving us humans powerless to stop them.

Artificial intelligence experts have claimed that computers and robots will commit more crimes than humans by 2040.

They warned that murder machines will end up carrying the "lone wolf" terror attacks more associated with radicalised terrorists than psycho computers.

Tracey Follows, chief strategy and innovation officer at The Future Laboratory, told Raconteur: "As the workforce moves towards more automation, we could find 35 per cent of jobs now done by humans have been replaced by robots.