Lol I laughed, then i didn't, cause you know... It will happen 😂

I work at a company in Canada that sells Fanuc welding robot, we are expanding at an incredible rate. I would say 95%+ of our client are not buying robots to replace workers, they automate because they can't find welders.

EDIT : Right now the only thing that prevents wide scale use of robots is programming, since not every company can have robot programmers, but with AI and other tech we start to have a lot of robot in production that programs themselves. You put the 3D in a software and you get directly your welding programs for your parts. The operator only need to select the right program for the corresponding part. Those robots are game changer and we can't keep up on production.