AI is advancing in leaps and bounds. At the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2025), a robot, CASBOT 01, developed by Beijing-based Lingbao CASBOT, was featured. The robot allegedly has the computing power of 550 trillion operations per second, dwarfing human operational speeds. Apparently, the robot can do manual labour tasks, even run and jump, as well as more fine-grained tasks. According to the company: "The adoption of robots like the CASBOT 01 could significantly alter the professional landscape by shifting human labor towards higher value-added tasks, fostering creative and productive evolution across various sectors. This shift could also help address workforce shortages in critical areas while boosting overall productivity."
Translated to our talk, this means that a whole host of jobs that at present have a manual labour component will disappear to be replaced by such machines.