EP16 What If Robots Did All The Jobs

What if robots did EVERY job, from cooking and driving to building and doctoring? 🤖 Meet Bolt, the friendliest robot in the city of 3026, and find out what humans would do in a world where nobody has to work. Could robots really take over? Terra gives an honest answer! 🧠 2 quiz challenges inside. Comment your answers! ⏱️ Chapters 0:00 Welcome to 3026 0:36 A City Run by Robots 1:08 The First Factory Robot 1:41 It’s Happened Before 2:37 Challenge #1 3:10 What Robots Find Hard 3:43 Will Robots Take Over? 4:27 What Humans Do 5:00 Challenge #2 5:30 The Twist… 5:58 Next Episode 🔍 Fun facts The word “robot” comes from a 1920 play by Czech writer Karel Čapek. “Robota” means forced work. The first factory robot, Unimate, started work at a General Motors plant in New Jersey in 1961. There are more than 4 million industrial robots working around the world today. Around 1900, about 4 in 10 American workers were farmers. Today it’s fewer than 2 in 100. Moravec’s paradox: things that are easy for humans (like folding laundry) are often hard for robots!