There are probably quite a few inflection points coming, and that is one of them.
I think another is when they are capable of most unskilled work (supermarket shelf stacking, cleaning, etc), but cost less to employ than humans paid Western-country minimum wages.
i believe the real breakthrough is whenever this is becoming real :
… or when robots are more efficient than humans at building other robots.
Yes.
There are probably quite a few inflection points coming, and that is one of them.
I think another is when they are capable of most unskilled work (supermarket shelf stacking, cleaning, etc), but cost less to employ than humans paid Western-country minimum wages.