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Robots can replace 74 percent of manual labor, but are not yet cheaper than humans

Robots can technically perform much of the manual labor done by humans, but only a small share can be replaced at lower cost, an analysis showed. Anthropic analyzed about 900 occupations and 19,000 tasks, classifying robot capability into four levels based on workplace environment. While robots could handle about 74 percent of manual labor tasks in technical terms, only 0.3 percent of all work was cheaper than human labor. Falling robot prices could raise that share over time.