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Folks, this has been happening in many industries for decades now. It doesn't damage the economy in the long run, it helps it. A worker replaced by a robot certainly doesn't have much fun, true, but overall, the efficiency gains from factory automation benefit everyone.

Robots are at work on every assembly line and in every factory, and they are a Good Thing.

"It doesn't damage the economy in the long run"

Using more robots means that the overall cost of production goes down. This means that products can be sold cheaper to humans who are making less in service sector jobs.

If the world's population settles and then starts to go down a little, this might be OK. More and more robots making cheaper products for fewer low paid humans.

If, however, the population continues to increase for a while, then there will be too many unemployed people not making enough money to buy anything.

Going on the dole will be institutionalized around the world, and not just in places like the UK.

Folks, this has been happening in many industries for decades now. It doesn't damage the economy in the long run, it helps it. A worker replaced by a robot certainly doesn't have much fun, true, but overall, the efficiency gains from factory automation benefit everyone.
Robots are at work on every assembly line and in every factory, and they are a Good Thing.

All this productivity (efficiency) you worship only result in more Obama voters. It is easy to connect the dots. So be prepared to have your taxes transferred (redistributed) to the armies of the unemployed and their baby mamas. My taxes too so long as Obama and Democrats rule

Progress and automation and computerization and robots cannot be stopped but anyone with a brain can see it is better to have more humans needed to make things and this is what America was like 20-30-40 years ago. In fact I am pretty sure FoxConn wanted to deploy more robots a while ago but was under pressure from Chinese Gov't to keep people employed. Chinese Gov't fears civil unrest from too many idle workers.