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someone still has to mop the floors.

• logfromblammo 9y ago
  My iRobot Scooba does that--poorly, but it does that. The Roomba handles the initial hard floor cleaning, and also the carpets. I don't have a robot yet to clean the toilets, but I hear they exist in Japan, and my parents have one on their most heavily used commode. Thank goodness California phased out most of its public telephones before sending all their telephone sanitizers on the 'B' Ark to Texas. Whether there is a problem in pushing out all the low-skilled labor depends largely on whether all the work that those people do is automated yet. My concern is that jobs that require some on-site human judgment, but not a lot of skill, will start to go unfilled before robots are ready to step in.