Robots replacing human workers in the manufacturing was at the top of the agenda at the Manufacturing Indaba in Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. The annual Indaba seeks to find solutions to the challenges faced by the sector. Speakers at the Indaba believe the use of robots is the future. The Indaba comes at the time the manufacturing sector continues to shrink. In the first quarter results released by Statistics South Africa, manufacturing production fell by 6.4 percent. Mcebisi Ngqina reports.