Robots are already REFUELING cars in China.
The driver stays inside - the robot finds the fuel door, opens it, grabs the nozzle, fills the tank, puts it back, and closes the cap. No attendant needed.
But the craziest part isn’t what it can do.
It’s how little it costs:
Around $100,000.
Sounds expensive until you do the math.
A gas-station attendant in China earns roughly ¥68,000 a year.
If one robot can cover three shifts, that��s about ¥204,000 in annual base wages potentially replaced.
At roughly ¥700,000+ for the robot, the simple payback is around 3–4 years.
After that, the economics get brutal.
No salary.
No sick days.
No night-shift premium.
No staff shortages.
And unlike a human employee, one software update can improve thousands of these machines overnight.
Today it looks like an expensive experiment.
A few years from now, NOT having one may be the expensive choice.