Whenever a new technology is introduced, it’s often viewed with suspicion and distrust, if not outright hostility.
Such was the case when robots were introduced into automotive assembly plants back in the early 1960s. Rather than welcome the machines for taking over dull, dirty and dangerous tasks, many workers saw them as an existential threat. Some workers even went so far as to sabotage robots to prove how unreliable and dangerous they were. Today, though the debate over robots and jobs is still smoldering to some extent, most workers accept the now ubiquitous technology as just another tool in the manufacturing arsenal.