This is how the future of manual labour will look!

Google recently put up its Boston Dynamics robotics unit up for sale, but that doesn't mean that the company is getting out of the automaton business.

A new bipedal robot from Google's Schaft robotics was shown off at the New Economic Summit conference in Tokyo, Japan.

The small robot is shown walking in a number of situations that can be challenging even for humans, including a sandy beach, a rocky terrain, snow, and a steep, narrow staircase.

At one point during the demonstration video, we even see how the robot handles random, rolling obstacles thrown under its "feet." P.S. – It handles the surprise instability better than many humans might!

The video also shows off how the robot can handle uneven terrain while carrying heavy loads, indicating that this could be the parent to the human labour replacement robot some have been anticipating in recent years.

Sure, we already have robots that build our cars, manage inventory in factories and even construct our homes. But this is the kind of robot that could, for example, carry a bag of groceries for a person. That kind of humanoid assistant-level worker robot replacement could have huge impacts in the future.

Google hasn't released a commercial debut for the robot, but the demonstration alone is enough to send the most important message: the days of human labour based on muscle are numbered. 

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