How To Ensure Robots Don't Make Us All Unemployed

TOKYO, JAPAN - King Felipe VI shakes hands with an ASIMO robot during their visit to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan) in Tokyo, Japan. If you were a bank teller in the '90s, there's a good chance you were terrified. ATMs were sprouting up everywhere, allowing people to withdraw cash without talking to a soul. Bank tellers, it was thought, would go the way of milkmen, lamplighters, and switchboard operators. But automation didn't kill the bank teller.