The battery life of a human is 6-8 hours. Those pesky humans also want "rights". Takes a long time to make a new human too.
So that's the competition.
So that's the competition.
How many naps are you taking? Normal uptime is at least 16 hours. In special circumstances, much more is possible.
I'd be amazed if the robots are more than 2. Slightly surprised if they're over 1.
It's not exactly comparable.
Oh, and humans have traditionally banded together to punish those who ask for more than 8 hours a day or 5 days a week, and have even historically gotten very murdery over the subject. Buyer beware!
How much PTO does the robot use? Are they a culture fit? Do they have any insights for process improvement?
If robots can replace humans for the most monotonous tasks, I'm all for it, as long as it doesn't hurt living conditions for those humans.
But all these robots are only shown to us in very carefully controlled conditions. If a human was doing what we saw this robot doing in a factory, they'd probably get disciplined unless they increased their speed by 400%. This is state of the art, I presume.
Maybe this kind of thing will be useful some day, but it feels like that day is a long way off.
As far as speed, it depends on what the limitations are. We know electric motors in general are capable of moving faster, so presumably the limits are with computation, to which I'd point out that Moore's law is still hanging on. Compared to Honda's Asimo in 2000 BD's Atlas robot in 2016 was nothing short of phenomenal progress, but that took 16 years.
Hopefully it doesn't take another 16, but we'll see. Once there are useful commercially available humanoid robots on the market, progress is likely to accelerate.
Literally how would it not? Losing your job hurts your living condition, it's not like the warehouse workers will just be given cushier tasks.
Yep, you’re not allowed to own them, only rent them. And there’s no right to repair if you have a defective unit.
Which, humans do at least once a day, among tending to other biological needs as well. So the question is what's a useful run time if there's a bank of swappable batteries it can run back to refill from? Even if it had to go and swap batteries every two hours, for a factory robot that wouldn't be insurmountable.