A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot

This seems to be a transition stage for fine motor skill robots with advanced object recognition capabilities. A few more iterations will surely make the human counterparts obsolete, as demonstrated by the rapid automation of manufacturing giants such as FOXCONN.

At ~$100,000 USD this will simply not replace dirt cheap labor in developing countries for decades to come.

is this something we should worry about? If we, as a civilisation (forget countries for a second) hypothetically replace all labourers by robots, then what? Is it any different from using cheap overseas labour? Will we be able to find something else to do for these people? Should we turn to communism in the long term, if the only 'working' people are software&robotics engineers? We obviously can't all be tech workers, can we? And would that even be useful?

<i>Automation poses a real threat to the factory worker</i><p>Correction: Automation poses a real threat to everyone