The $100,000 Worker That Never Sleeps

Today, a capable humanoid robot costs roughly $100,000. A human employee doing repetitive physical work could cost a company about that much every year once wages and benefits are included.

Over five years, that’s potentially $500,000 for the worker versus a fraction of that for the machine — and the robot can work around the clock without breaks.

That’s why we may be approaching one of the biggest economic shifts since the arrival of the internet.

But the biggest winners may not be the companies manufacturing the robots themselves.

This post originally appeared at Money & Markets.