As far as I can tell, most consumers will happily jettison the 'personal touch' in pursuit of lower prices. (See: Walmart) The coldly efficient robot nurse who

As far as I can tell, most consumers will happily jettison the 'personal touch' in pursuit of lower prices. (See: Walmart) The coldly efficient robot nurse who can handle all the mechanical tasks but doesn't have human compassion will be cheaper and thus wildly preferred by anyone paying for health care. And that goes double when government/corporate/payment indirection leads to a lack of real choice by the direct consumer of health care. Similarly as soon as robots can match an $8 haircut (and those are nothing special), they'll destroy the low-end of grooming. Teaching has a fair shot; it's not generally acceptable to pursue reduced education costs in a vacuum. But I wouldn't underestimate the for-profit schooling industry's ability to selectively report and lobby their way into pitching robot teachers as the key to more effective education.