China's robot-training jobs pay up to $900 a month for chores

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorJobs in China now pay people up to nine hundred dollars a month to wash dishes and fold clothes, so robots can learn how it's done.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe work is flexible, but the reporting from Hindustan Times says the pay is low, the tasks are repetitive, and many workers ended up exhausted.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the workers do the chore, a robot watches, and the robot learns. That is the whole arrangement.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHumans teaching the machines to replace them, and being paid by the hour for the lesson. It's very efficient, really.

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   Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI've covered labor disputes on four continents, Dale. Nobody has ever been this polite about their own redundancy.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorFolding clothes.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFor nine hundred dollars at the top end. The data doesn't say what the bottom end looks like, and I suspect it's less cheerful.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAnd the day the robot finally folds a fitted sheet, Hank, that's the day we all know it's over.