Which is a little weird, because a $10/hour job for 40 hours/week for 50 weeks/year is $20K. The robot can presumably work 168 hours/week for 52 weeks/year, whi

Which is a little weird, because a $10/hour job for 40 hours/week for 50 weeks/year is $20K. The robot can presumably work 168 hours/week for 52 weeks/year, which means that it's roughly 1/4 the cost of a human (and that doesn't count hiring time, HR training, sick days, worker's comp, taxes...) The real issue is that we expect minimum wage workers to operate independently on minimal instructions, and as every programmer knows, explaining what you want done to a computer is much harder than telling a competent adult.