Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by pyinstallwoes on Friday August 20, 2021 @11:34PM
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What percentage of labor is factories? We're talking about all human physical labor.
Re:Tesla Announces a Humanoid Robot “Tesla Bot”
by handmodel on Saturday August 21, 2021 @11:14PM
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Is a cashier/bagger physical labor? Is stocking the shelves of a grocery store? What about a truck driver or unloader?
I would say all these jobs would be automated but 0 of these would be automated by a humanoid. Driver/cashier/baggers will be computers with sensors and unlouder/shelfer will be robots more similar to that vid. Things like construction I think will be assembled ahead of time and brought to side with more automated cranes and sensors.
The number of jobs that seem like "this can be automated but can't be automated by a robot and isn't worth it to build specific robot for but IS expensive enough to use a robot that will always be more expensive than a car" seems small to me.
I feel like a lot of factories are going to go in this direction. Lots of complex automation but ultimately very simple mechanisms with a strong framework to make sure nothing goes wrong.