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Re:Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation by spijdar on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @12:16PM (#26636477)
I mean, won't robots need repairs/maintenance, "training" in the form of programming or tweaking parameters, and other things?

These may have lesser costs than their human equivalents, but I don't think they're magically zero-maintenance.

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Re:Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robot for Warehouse Automation by tachyonbeam on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @10:12PM (#26642797)
It's also questionable how much cheaper robot training is. Specialized programmers to write special-purpose code just for your specific application don't exactly come cheap... Especially when you're not paying them directly, but rather trough some external robotics company you're consulting with. We could easily be talking $300/hour.
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