Re:What Comes After the Roomba?
by isostatic on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:05AM
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Even if it were 50k a year, that's under $6 an hour, which beats minimum wage in the U.S.
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Re:What Comes After the Roomba?
by TheSpiceIsLife on Thursday October 25, 2018 @05:50AM
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Good observation!
Even if we assume 90% uptime, it’s going to needs some maintenance, it comes out to a levelised cost of $6.34 an hour, plus parts and labour for the maintenance.
This still blows human labour out of the water because robots don’t complain about conditions, and they don’t intentionally run off with trade secrets.
Yet.
They don't get tired, they don't have days off sick, they are repeatable
Automation is good. Assuming the hypothetical robot that can do the required task actually exists, it's probably worth nearer to $100k a year
Not sure if you've worked with machenery before but it takes plenty of time off.
You only get that if you're working round the clock, which none of the examples would do for companies as the robot would need to move around thus having downtime.
Your also assuming 0 maintenance and no charging time