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Over recent years, a swathe of economists have warned the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence could replace many of today’s jobs, leading to an even larger pool of underemployed and underutilised workers.
Last year, the construction sector came into automation’s view with FastBrick’s Hadrian X bricklaying machine capable of laying up to 1,000 bricks an hour:
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.