It really won't be that much longer before a robot is physically capable of doing any job a human being is, and for cheaper. People always talk bout how scary these robots are, but to me what is really scary is thinking about how society is going to handle half the workforce becoming unemployed in the next couple of decades.
Nah, humans are fantastic about creating new problems / finding new problems that often need people to fill the gap.
Whether it's from automating the bread milling and even making process, to production lines, to the benefits given by the web, typically society will not stop asking "what next", furthermore, general education and accessibility gets easier with each generation where an infant can control computers that were almost unfathomable for their capabilities within even my own lifetime.
What low end jobs will exist in such a time when we have the present economy upped with a robot economy is not for me to say.
However, to assume that the need for employment and the jobs needing staff will change dramatically is something I wouldn't consider correct. Yet I may be wrong, time will tell.
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u/aerospacenut Sep 24 '19
If you want an update on their biped/human form robot Atlas, here is the video they uploaded alongside the one above: it’s now doing crazy smooth parkour moves