> Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. I disagree. The reason we still have millions of factory workers doing jobs a

> Infantry are going to be a thing of the past for anything more than proxy wars. I disagree. The reason we still have millions of factory workers doing jobs a robot can do, is that the human is easily trained, and easily replaced, and very cheap to run. If the human breaks, you just replace it from the endless supply of other humans. Infantry[1] is the same. Take a gun, learn how to shoot it, run at the enemy. If the solider dies, just replace it with another one from the endless supply of humans. Robots on the other hand are very expensive to replace. Until we can auto-build Terminators[2] for less than the 'cost' of a human, robots will never replace people in low skill, high churn roles. --- [1] I'm not talking about proper specialist soldiers here, just the barely-trained cannon fodder. [2] ..and we all know how that turns out.