Lifewire reached out to Director Amarita Natt for her insight on autonomous food delivery and its effect on workers. Here are a few of the quotes from the article:
“Automated delivery is actually quite challenging on a number of levels. It’s also going to take a while for this technology to be more cost-efficient than humans, I suspect, giving some time for people to find alternative employment options.”
“I’d like to hope that automation frees up humans to be inventive and imaginative—I keep coming back to this idea that machines will replace tasks but not necessarily jobs.”
Read the full article here.