Will the rise of the cyborg save human work?

Advances in robotics, alongside increasing workplace automation, have sparked fears that human workers will soon be made redundant.

Many predict that blue-collar jobs – such as warehouse work, factory work and delivery driving – may soon be taken over by robotic successors.

Chinese factories have already laid-off human staffers, replacing them with robot counterparts, as the output of Sino industrial robots grew by over 30% last year.

A mobile phone factory in Dongguan has already replaced 90% of its human staff with robots, with the General Manager claiming that productivity has increased and less mistakes are made.