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The Robots Coming for Hollywood Labor

With android arms and humanoids able to complete precise tasks, physical production could be replaced long before writers and directors

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Nov 19, 2024
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WILD ROBOTS Thanks to advancements in AI-powered robotics, meet your future film crew as foretold by 2004’s I, Robot. (Photo illustration by The Ankler; 20th Century Studios)

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