When will robots take our jobs?

"The people who have skills, who have training, they can get a job," says Lionel P. Robert Jr., a professor at the University of Michigan Robotics Institute. "The people at the low end--when those jobs go away, they just have less options to find another job." As everyone knows, the supply chain is under tremendous pressure with a boom in consumer spending. E-commerce exploded as the pandemic lockdowns set in, and it continues to grow rapidly (up 14.2% from 2020 to 2021). Demand is accelerating the deployment of already advanced robots, and nowhere are the prospects for automation stronger than in two particular sectors: warehousing and trucking.