Robots still need engineers to design them, manufacturing to provide the parts, technicians to build them, programmers to program them (or to program the AI that will run them) and project managers to manage all these processes. It is, IMHO just another phase of our technological and industrial evolution. Jobs will be lost but new ones will be created. Adapt to or train for these changes or become obsolete. The changes will keep happening whether you’re ready or not.
Exactly.
Eventually robots will be able to design and repair other robots, harvest all the raw materials we need (eventually from space) and generate all the energy without human input.
Absolutely zero human effort required and all material riches of the universe will come to us on demand.
However, human nature is very tied to effort and achievement. Even though we hate having too much work, I believe some is essential to hapiness. When no effort is required to obtain anything, very strange things happen to the human mind...
Mechanics.
Exactly. We will still need all those jobs you listed.
There is no way Robots will do anything which requires original & creative thinking.
Back in the late 1960’s I developed software which could generate all the tool motions required to machine a part on a computer controlled lathe, where only input required by the software was dimensions of the finished part and dimensions of the forged raw part weighing around 4000 lbs. So yes, the software took away the job of the programmer who previously had to define each of the 3000 tool motions needed to machine the part.
However our machining programmers did not lose any jobs, they simply became extremely more productive. And to load the 2 ton part in the lathe had to be done manually with a large overhead crane, because not too many robots can handle a 2 ton item. And since we were in the business of manufacturing custom engineered machines, we needed only ONE such part and it would be ridiculously impractical to program a monstrous robot to bring the part from storage and install it in the lathe one time. Robots are intrinsically for repeatative jobs.
So yes, robots and AI will do lots of jobs which are pre-defined and NEED MANY IDENTICAL parts processed.