Automation is also getting lazy: now even robots are lagging behind

Don’t be fooled by the stories about robots cutting fish for sushi, assisting grandmothers, singing and telling jokes. Where it counts, that is, in the gears of the economy, the contribution of robots, today as today, fades. They are more and more all over the place, but, instead of breaking productivity records, they are beating the slack. In short, they are not what they used to be.