Robots have been around for 40 years. And I still see shortage of skilled people and corporations can’t find enough qualified workers. My nephew just graduated with an engineering degree and has MULTIPLE job offers to choose from. I guess the robots are not smart enough to replace him.
That’s Jonty’s point.
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.