Technology has always been used to make heavy work feel lighter. Inventions like the wheel, the first washing machine, and the steam engine were designed to save us from backbreaking…
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.
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.