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Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by coldtea on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:15AM (#28058536)
>If you build a robot that only handles the main workflow and can't handle any of the exceptions, you're not automating anything; you're building a convenience tool. Basically, you're removing some of the labor part of the job, but still keeping the decision making part of the job for humans.

Which is still automation.

Robots in factories making cars still leave most of the "decision making part of the job for humans".

See, the size of the "decision making part of the job" matters...

Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by markdown on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @04:18AM (#28058557)
Robots in factories can only do one job, building the same car over and over again.
Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by coldtea on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:24AM (#28059340)
Which is neither here nor there.

It's still automation (which, as a concept, doesn't require being able to do multiple jobs, or even to do a single job from start to completion).

A mechanical system that frees a human from having to do do part of a job is already automation, and can still save tons of time and worker costs/effort. E.g. a system that automatically assembles 95% of a car door, and a human just has to come in at the end and attach some hard to automate part, is still better than the human having to assemble to whole door.

Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by markdown on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:10PM (#28066356)
Have you ever worked in construction?
Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by coldtea on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:15AM (#28071143)
Again, a non sequitur. Is there a point here?
Re:Where are the robotic bricklayers? by markdown on Thursday August 05, 2021 @10:08PM (#28082515)
The point is that it's easy to, from a distance, think that something is just like another thing. Without experience in a particular domain, you really don't know how things work. No two walls are alike.