IMO humans are quite well equipped for manual labor, much more so than for most office jobs. Millions of years of evolution perfected us for eye-motor coordination, not writing code or attending Teams meetings. Building robots that can do it as well as humans is going to be a difficult task.
93po|1 year ago
1. they need to sleep 8 hours a day
2. they will refuse to work more than 9 hours a day in many cases
3. they need frequent breaks
4. they are fueled by biomatter which is massively resource consuming to generate and deliver
5. they provide inconsistent results
6. they fight with other workers
7. they can be dishohest
8. bodies break down irreparably after a couple decades of this style of work and require hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical care
9. it takes 20 years to produce another viable human to serve as a replacement worker, and there's very little you can do to influence the general supply of total workers
10. they follow instructions poorly
11. they take an incredible amount of time to learn
12. they require extreme levels of safety precautions that an all-robot work crew would not need