BMW has chosen to use Figure AI humanoid robots in BMW car factories over the next 12-24 months.
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So which country will implement a robotic labor tax first, to cover for lost employee income taxes?
That’s still a few years away. For the next couple years, they will be helping fill vacant voids. Far too many people don’t work these days, thanks to government handouts, ironically paid for my the people who do still work.
How they craft it would matter quite a bit. What’s a robot? How do you distinguish it from other labor saving machinery that hasn’t been taxed? Just humanoids? That would drive the substitution of specialized non-humanoid bots and machinery.