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qiqing | 4 years ago

Wouldn't it be great, though, if humans were no longer working warehouse jobs that strain their backs and their bladders?

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jvanderbot|4 years ago

Yes! Your warehouse would have to be a cleanroom (someone left a can of soda? Your robot just smashed through a shelf when it tried to step on it)

In general, I'm an AI researcher and an AI skeptic. After 10 years in robotics, I'm learning that the Human Is Cheaper and where Human Is Expensive, we prefer toasters, not terminators. (just enough hard-coded / hard-wired adaptivity to get by with tons of supervision)

ryankrage77|4 years ago

> Your warehouse would have to be a cleanroom

At which point you're back to an automated assembly line which needs very little dynamics or intelligence. The whole point of developing such advanced robots is so that you don't need to worry as much about that can on the floor.

konart|4 years ago

I don't think we need anything humanoid for this though.

rebuilder|4 years ago

Depends on who profits.