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Balancing and hands are also hard as fuck mechanically.

Nah, we're doing good in terms of robustness. Robots our form with 62783 actioners, all of which require specific maintenance, on the other hand...

this is Patlabor, which is based

Same thing with AI models to replace animal models in pharma research.

Also, it's probably easier to automate away jobs maintaining robots than it is to automate away much more varied and unpredictable jobs done by humans. It's definitely easier to automate away jobs building robots than it is to automate away much more varied and unpredictable jobs done by humans.

Lutnick's "plan" is great for robot full employment, & employers--who will reap reduced labor costs--but it wld mean a net human job loss. Would these hypothetical robots spend money in our economy to offset loss of consumer demand? What happens to the poor robots when consumer demand tanks?

Oh dear, and now I just realized that the post I was replying to was 5 months old and someone had just reposted it into my TL. Sorry! 🤣

The idea that people would be building the robots is as laughable as the idea that robots are currently ready for deployment as work force replacements.

Robots don’t buy cars, houses, groceries, nor do they pay taxes.

Large-scale 3d print farms use robots to change plates. For 20 years, industrial mfg has effectively been people supervising robots. The idea that there's room for some large scale mechanization of American industry, like we're the Soviets in the 30s or China in the 70s, is incredibly ignorant.

Exactly. The only thing blocking us from fully automated corporatist dictatorship is the fact that humanoid robots cost more than $8/hr to run.

Luxury Space Communism is a nice target even if it’s not a real thing that can be achieved

Is it just me, or do others think people (not robots) need jobs in order to have money to buy the crap that robots (not people) make? How does the automation of everything work in a consumer-dependent economy?

We definitely already have as much as we can. Auto manufacturers and Amazon warehouses use a ton of robots. They only pay humans when they must.

To the extent that robots are deployed commercially right now, they need fuckloads of human oversight.

They have no idea how anything works, do they?

Wait a minute… are you seeing a very rich guy appointed by Trump has no fucking clue what he’s talking about? This doesn’t seem possible!

our government is a bunch of old people who don't understand technology at all, but rather than being scared of that decided that anything tech is effectively magic and can fix/do anything

I look forward to the large scale roboticization of low end consumer manufacturing in AOC's second term.