Due to failing working conditions, Saudi Arabia begins the switch to robots

Saudi Arabia's projects across the country began in 2017. In this time, they have brought in expats, mostly from South Asia in order to work on the Line and their other projects. Saudi Arabia has been criticized for their treatment of Expats, which is not an uncommon criticism of the Gulf States. This criticism has also been used against Saudi Arabian neighbors Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. As of recently, there have been a total of 21,000 ex-pats from India, Bangladesh, and Nepal that have lost their lives in the nation from the working conditions. Due to criticism from the international community, Saudi Arabia has begun to use robots bought from Samsung in their projects, which would reduce the number of human deaths.