Will robots take assembly line worker (light industrial) jobs?

Threat timeline: Exhibition and museum guide roles are being displaced now — guided tours are the product MagicLab already sells as a package. Inspection, scanning, and material-handling jobs inside electronics plants get repeatable data from MagicLab's own pilots within 1-3 years; spread to ordinary contract manufacturers depends on whether the 400-unit production target lands, which we put at 3-5 years. The 7.5 kg single-arm payload keeps heavy stations out of scope for now.

Threat timeline: 3-5 years. RB-Y1 is a development platform, not a finished worker — today's buyers are labs, not factories. The variable is Samsung: once the consolidated manufacturing and distribution muscle engages, light-assembly and machine-tending applications built on this platform can scale faster than any independent startup's path. The wheeled base skips bipedal locomotion's hardest problems, which may pull deployment earlier, not later.