Hacker News Reader

Comment by mc32 | Hacker News Reader

At $7/hr to rent it, security guards should start thinking about pivoting career.

There was an OECD opinion piece recently where they said on balance automation would not destroy jobs. I don't believe it. It will begin by eating these low skills jobs away and then eat its way upwards.

View on HN

Doesn't this support the OECD opinion piece? Security guards can do a lot. These machines do almost nothing. Even in a total puff piece, they weren't able to come up with a single example where the robot actually did anything, except to run into a person by accident and have its photo taken in selfies.

A real security guard does more than this robot, though. Especially in case of trouble.

A real rent-a-cop calls the real cops if there is any trouble (which the robot can certainly do). They are a deterrent, not enforcers.

Security guards can give CPR.

That, and they have actually a pretty complete neural network with years of training to adapt to a bunch of circumstances.

Many of them, not so much

No, you are thinking about cops maybe?

So maybe it'd be better if security guards could call enforcer robots if shit hits the fan?

At least there would be more chance this way that the procedure is followed before using firearms.

As long as there's no regression with a new release.

The $7 an hour rate is misleading. It is based on an annual contract of ~$50,000 per robot and assumes the robot 'works' 24/7/365. We got this information from the company itself.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com