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People get employed when their work allows an employer to create more value, that a customer can buy, than their wage costs.
Robots need to be designed, built, trained and repaired.
When it comes to wealth inequality that's partly true. Automatization has the potential to create a lot of inequality because skill differences lead to stronger outcome differences.
The robotic revolution and possibly the next AI revolution means that the source of labor can be shifted from people to robot.
Within the usual production model, output = f(capital) x g(labor), labor is to be meant exclusively as human labor, but in the next future, possibly labor will mean robot labor, which can be acquired and owned, thus becoming part of the means of production accessible to capital. In a sense, if AI will take a hold in the industry, labor will be a function of capital, and this means that the equation will be transformed as output = h(capital). Depending on the h, of course, you will have more or less convenience (humans require training and repairing too).