At FANUC (Fuji Automatic Numerical Control), a complex of twenty-two factories in Japan, robots replicate themselves twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The robots are great workers who don’t even need heat or air conditioning. An article from the software design firm Autodesk, citing clients like Tesla and Apple, wrote that “job stability for FANUC’s self-replicating robots is at an all-time high.”

