Comment by Manglo | Hacker News Reader

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A LOT of real humans still assemble machines across the globe. Probably also what you have at home.

There are plenty of YouTube videos available were you can see how many hands a rice cooker is going through.

And we talk about a real robot costing 5 figures being able to shown what it should do and then it just does it 24/7.

It will fill the gap of no automatisation to full automatisation.

Besides that, in theory it would also allow the remote-gig economy: A robot at home, a helper sitting somewere else.

Take some random problem: You want some automatistaion for painting a wall. What do you do? You buy the full automat from a special company which comes with its own support contract, and fllow up costs.

Now you buy one 5 figure robot, explain to them that they should paint the room and they will do it. Not today, but do you think this will take 50 years and is a non solvable problem? I don't.

It works 24/7 till it breaks down or gets stuck in a situation it was trained for then the company that purchased it will likely have to wait at least days if not weeks for a repair tech to come down and fix it or adjust its training data.

I feel so many people bullish on these robots has never worked on physical things so they have this rosy picture of the smooth sailing once they get their humanoid robots delivered that it's going to just work forever without effort or input.

Wouldn't they just send another robot to fix or replace it?

Can't imagine that going wrong /s

But can you imagine it going right?

Eventually maybe but not in the next few decades

Even with just teleoperation, the first robotics companies are poised to have some of the most efficient in-field technician operations, as long as there are at least two robots on site.

Only if it is and stay a nice product. Not with mass market.

And as hard as physical things are, i assumed that the first robots would cost 7 figures they are already at 5.

It will not take 50 years to have a generic AGI style Robot walking around.

These machine assembling robots would be more expensive than the humans in those countries. And there is no shortage of humans willing to do that job.

There is , however, real shortage of humans for agri and construction , in the rich world, right now.

> You want some automatistaion for painting a wall

You call over someone with a spraying machine that paints the house in 30 minutes.

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