It's sad to see how the big picture is completely being missed. As mr. belgian said, there are many other jobs needed to make a robot and do automation. Steel needs made for the robot, bolts, wiring, the computer/brain/plc (whatever you want to call it). Someone must engineer it mechanically, electrically and integrate it into whatever system it's designed for. Someone must program it. All those engineers and programmers use computers which require people and resources to build them. A company must develop/design ancillary equipment such as limit switches, photo eyes etc. for the robot. That company will then need to hire someone to manufacture those parts. Guess what, that manufacturing facility will probably use robots to manufacture those parts. See how far this can grow, and that's one robot.
We haven't even discussed networking all the robots together. Bringing the information back to a central computer to be monitored. People need to make the computer servers, programmers need to develop the software to interpret this data.
I am a programmer, I have implemented multiple systems and you would not believe how many times I've had to add programming so an operator didn't have to press some buttons.
Yes robots last a while, but only about 10 years. During that time tweaks need made to programming, parts go bad and need changed, etc.
I agree, robots do take jobs, but you should look at the broader picture.
As far as banks go, I would have to go into work late or leave early in order to get to one before it closes.
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