We're still hundreds of years away from this in my opinion. I work at a steel mill and while it's not nearly as labor intensive as it was 100 years ago and won't be nearly as labor intensive 100 years from now as it is today, we're a long ways off from 0 human intervention. Until robots can troubleshoot, fix, and create new technologies the steel mill will always need some sort of human interaction.
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You are forgetting something. Technology advances at an exponential rate not a linear rate. So, the advancements made in the last 100 years, will be made in just a decade or two. And many experts predict that the technological singularity is bound to happen in 2050 or even before that. When that happens, the need for humans will be essentially over as AI would become so intelligent that it could develop itself as a self sustaining "species".