Do they even come close to what humans can do?
Do they even come close to what humans can do?
If you keep your blinders on an focus on what you predict automation will look like, you will miss the world reshaping itself around you.
Nobody admits to loving their Cherry 2000.
People already get jiggy with other people who could easily bite off important bits.
The issue is trust, and I think that even with the simplest of failsafes[1], the machine juggling your important bits can be made more trustworthy than the human currently doing it.
[1] For example, failing in an off position, or using equipment that, even if overdriven at full force, will not have enough force to do damage. Having the clamping or piston mechanism driven off a spring can ensure that the maximum force applied depends on the stiffness of the spring, which gets softer with age, not harder.
There's multiple ways currently being used to make machines that interact with humans safe for humans no matter what happens.
But wasn't that the problem OP was trying to solve ;)