A long way away
And here is why - driverless cars are a thing ... essentially making the car the "robot"
General-purpose robots are an amusing scifi trope, but have no practical benefit in reality
Purpose-built robots (even ones that can flex within that prupose to different applications) make far more sense (and have already been around for decades)
And it’s true. Industries have shown time and again that they’d rather send the work to paupers’ hands in countries without rather than automate to metals hands within.
I disagree, to the point I'd say the statement is nearly false.
You have to look at what the 'expensive' point of the work is.
In some cases it's electricity, those things generally don't get sent overseas, but instead are highly automated.
In some cases it's waste by product. Those get sent to countries where they don't care if you dump it and poison it.
In some cases it's proximity to other manufacturing of parts you need.
In some cases it's cheap labor without the need for paying healthcare.
Surely it was for the cheap labor regardless of how it was achieved.