Robot of the day
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"2: Robots are less adaptable"
"It turns out that actual jobs are made of dozens of individual tasks. Automation tends to automate tasks one-at-a-time. This is a place where humanoids have more potential than other kinds of robots. In 2011 I was working at Anybots Inc and we were looking into teleoperated security, and were very enthusiastic until we interviewed someone who did after-hours security work and he told us that in addition to ‘walking around and looking for bad guys’ his job consisted of testing all the doors to make sure they were locked, unplugging the coffee machine if it had been left on, turning off lights, etc, etc. We had only considered the main task, and not realized the whole slew of other smaller tasks that were part of that job.
If there is a human picking items in a warehouse and all the orders get picked, that person will switch to something like refilling or doing inventory or preparing labels or folding and taping shipping boxes, or any of the countless other tasks. Even a robot (humanoid or otherwise) who could physically do those tasks would go idle during that time unless you had programmed/trained those behaviors. The lack of flexibility costs at least 15% of the robot’s time.
So we take our 75K, subtract 15% for the flexibility penalty ($64k) and divide by 3 for the productivity ratio and we get $21k of value produced per robot per year.
Now we subtract our $26k costs and all of a sudden humans are cheaper than robots.
Womp-womp."
- So unless robots have the dexterity of an athlete and nothing less than AGI onboard, they are useless got it********
- So unless robots have the dexterity of an athlete and nothing less than AGI onboard, they are useless got it