Robots are the future and they are taking over human jobs. That is what the industrial revolution brought us. Thats how it started, and thats how it will continue.
Yeah yeah, jobs will disappear. Then think of it, so does the number of people available for such jobs. The west has a decreasing labor force and shrinking population. Robots will be required to take over the tasks that are vital but simply arent enough humans for. Think about it, the West is going to face a huge problem with its aging workforce. The baby boomers are getting older, and that means we need massive amounts of labor going to health care. People who are going to take care of these old people. But yeah, who wants to change diapers all day from stinky old people when you can do an awesome and much better paying job somewhere else? So, not enough care takers, elderly care gets turned into fabric work in order to meet the basic requirements to care for these people, and often that isnt even possible. Solution? Robots.
Robotize beds, so they detect when a diaper needs to be changed, when someone needs to be turned around, etc. They can take over sooo many of the menial shitty tasks that humans are still doing. And that creates time for nurses to do things like give actual attention to these people so they dont feel entirely abandoned. Initial costs will be high, but long term benefits are huge.
Furthermore, since our technology is getting ever more sophisticated, where chips are getting smaller and smaller, humans will get replaced in the factories. Simply because they cant work there anymore. Same thing happened with the car industry. Cars are build on assembly lines. That used by human work, now its done mostly by robots and a few guys that check on the robots. I believe this will continue to happen in a lot of sectors, mostly the more industrial sectors. I dont think its a bad thing though.