Anthropic study finds robots can do most physical tasks but rarely cost-effectively

Anthropic's research rates how well present-day robots can perform US job tasks, finding they can do 74% of physical tasks, or 34% of working hours, mostly in limited settings.

Robots are cost-competitive for only 0.3% of job tasks, and at a 3% annual price decline it would take about 40 years to reach 10%. The report also finds robot-exposed jobs tend to pay less and be more physically demanding than LLM-exposed jobs.