I’ve been throwing car batteries into the ocean for years now. I’m doing my part.
Pretty sure that is not environmental friendly
No need to thank me.
Sorry, but how exactly are humanoid robots supposed to get pallets in an out of 30m high warehouses? Do we revert back to driving around forklifts? How are store chains like Wallmart supposed to stock the shelves without modern, automated warehouses?
What kind of efficiency do humanoid robots have at welding a car chassis? How does every family drive 2 cars when we’re going to assemble them at a speed like in the 60s when every family had one?I don’t think any of this makes sense. We do rely on robots. You can’t buy a canned soup in a large store without robots. Your car mechanic can’t order a replacement part within 2 days after your car broke down, without some big logistics center powered by robots. We have a bazillion car brands and it’s a logistics nightmare to have replacement parts available. And they all have specialized robots, conveyor belts… None of that even works with humanoid robots. They’ll just be 1000x slower at carrying things around, manipulating big heavy objects, they can’t lift pallets… All of that has better solutions as of today.
I mean ultimately we wouldn’t have food for hundreds of millions of people to begin with, without massive technology in agriculture. Not sure what the proposal is… Should we all resume working on the fields to harvest food? Do we replace these big, mostly robotic harvesters with a bazillion humanoid robots pulling out the carrots?
Humanoid robots would be for generalist tasks or for operation in and around human-centric spaces. Specialist bots for specialized tasks.
That’s what I was thinking as well. But what they portray in the video is mostly warehouses and assembly lines. Which seems to me like the domain of specialized robots?! …There’s a few snippets, far and in between with what I’d call human-centric places. A humanoid stocking a fridge, unloading the laundry and bringing coffee…
I can envision humanoid robots work in smaller warehouses as well. Or as a receptionist. Or in more jobs in the far future. It’d take quite a while until that delivery driver robot can illegally park the car in my busy city, run across 3 lanes of rush hour traffic and hand me the packet. And then be fast enough to do it hundreds of times a day and in all weather conditions.Edit: I might be wrong, though. Just read an article about Hyundai going to deploy many humanoid robots to car assembly lines.
