Multi-skilled robots will do us all out of a job – even butchers

In food factories they will trim your sirloins and trusschickens. Assembling electric car batteries will also be firmly within their skillset. And in Japan, in the not too-distant future, they will be serving bank customers, checking-in hotel guests and delivering laundry. Ever since they took centre-stage in Fritz Lang’s dystopian masterpiece Metropolis some 88 years ago,…