The recent impressive technological advancement of Robot judge projects in Estonia*^[1], Canada*^[2] and China*^[3] is shortening the technical gap between the implementation of this new technology in the judiciary system and the chance it will be extended it to arbitrators.

For certain experts, ‘The brutal truth is that automated tools can deal more quickly, efficiently and accurately than any human with large quantities of documents or data’*^[4]. Consequently, arbitration is seeking to ‘change the appointment of arbitrators from being an intuitive process based on personal references to a decision founded on specific data.’*^[5]

With the recent IBM Project Debater, the first autonomous debating system has been launched. The challenge taken on by Project Debater is ‘outside the AI comfort zone’*^[6].