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I have said it numerous times in the past 3-4 years. I believe robotics ( not just humanoids ) will be a bigger thing / threat than AI. And currently China is at least 5 years ahead of rest of the world.

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I think people will be shocked when robots will be better at things that people train their whole lives for. For example, in the near future, a robot will be able to completely disassemble a car and put it back together completely autonomously. The polymathic understanding of vast amounts of information combined with physical dexterity and ability to work 24/7 will enable all sorts of wild things. The robot will even be able to take a huge pile of disorganized parts from a dissassembled car, and still put it back together. No normally talented person could reasonably be expected to pick a random screw off a pile of all the parts of a car and know where it would go in the assembly.

On the one hand, this could unlock an abundance future. On the other hand, will it?

Robots can also add different attachments to perform specialised tasks that custom machines often did. They can also have more than two arms.

Yes, of course people would be shocked.

The problem is just the data, the model, and the biomechanics solutions (…)

For now, I will put my trust in my human dentist.

I make the same argument.

I think we'll soon see a robot arm that costs $2,000-5,00 and will be trainable/deployable in a single day. THIS is what will crush most labor around the world.

Video of Indian workers sewing clothes with cameras on their heads capturing AI training footage made rounds last month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNrCjYytV2s

Worry not, Elon Musk has promised us that Tesla/XAI/SpaceX is is becoming a robotics firm and we will be saved by him. He is obviously to be truste.

To be fair, reusable rockets and electric cars people wanted to drive were not in much supply prior to those companies. Then again, the boring company is probably only at a parity at best with other miners.

I’m still not quite sure why we want humanoid robots and not something more useful or purpose-built.

Robotics and AI are not separate things

Robotics with ai is going to make automating office work seem like the warm up act.

Agreed, the hard part about robots is the controller.

We have been able to build robot bodies for decades, but we still don't really know how to build a robot mind. You need better AI than we currently have for that.

Yes, they are, robots have been driving modern manufacturing for over 50 years AI is newfangled technology

Both push the boundary of innovation on hardware/software. A product that combines the best of both will be killer.

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