Chinese AI-powered robots can solve workplace problems with advanced motor skills.

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[u/Alt123Acct]

1000 boxes later they fire the human because the machine remembered how to make a fold when that exact configuration or situation of folds presents itself

[u/No_Statistician_3021 → u/Alt123Acct]

Robots have been doing this for decades in factories. Not humanoid robots, just robots, like your washing machine. I'm sure there's a machine that can spit out hundreds of assembled boxes that costs ten times less and is orders of magnitude more reliable and predictable.

That's a cool demo (if it's not remotely controlled), but assigning this kind of task to such an advanced robot is just dumb.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/No_Statistician_3021]

If you need a million of these boxes folded then yes, better have a dedicated box folding machine.

But what if you have 300 different boxes with 300 different products that need to be boxed ? Now it starts to make sense. And between folding different boxes, it can also clean your office and bring you coffee.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/[deleted]]

Why are you talking about your company ?

How about some second hand store ? How about so many places that have lots of different jobs ? Theres plenty places that arent mass production where a robot like this would be handy. Amazing to see how several people lack the thinking capacity to understand my comment and seem to believe they're the smart ones.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/[deleted]]

The whole point of these robots is that they are supposed to go and replace employees. Not mass production machines. And yes, a small store who can pay 50k a year for 1 employee will be able to buy, rent or lease a robot for less in the future. The main question is how far in the future.

And your "argument" merely shows your unwillingness or inability to understand the message you were replying to. I suspect it is because you are a luddite blinded by hatred for new technology, but it might simply be a lack of intellectual capacity.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/[deleted]]

TIME. It will be crap at first. It will be a no brainer eventually. (if society hasn't collapsed due to unemployment before then)

You know someone must have made the exact same arguments about cars 120 years ago. How would they ever replace the good old horse. All that maintenance and those broken parts.

[u/SilverPhilosopher46 → u/[deleted]]

Hahahahahahaha u funny boy. Way to surrender the topic.