Just to inject a fun bit of philosophy...
Automation/robotics have been used a few times to remove the human element from various dangerous situations - bomb bots, some mining applications, some dangerous manufacturing applications.
But there is no shortage of us "meat robots" and the fact is that the population is increasing rather than decreasing, and things go much happier for everyone when more have paying jobs...
Is it even
right to continue automating humans out of their careers?
