• xektop@lemmy.zip
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    So, from what little research I did the robots cost from 5000$ to 500000$, as most articles point out the advanced robots cost 200000-300000$. In a lot of places around the world that’s like paying a human for 8-10 years. Humans are easily “replaceable”, where those robots have maintenance cost additional to the initial “investment”. How is that feasible in the eyes of the big money oligarchs? I genuinely don’t understand the end goal here.

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      I don’t think they really plan to replace workers with robots. It fulfills two other purposes:

      • Keep the work force humble by threatening them with permanent replaceability.
      • Keep the stock holders happy. This shit simulates “innovation” like the delivery drones 10 years ago.
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        if its actually feasible and it reduces cost, then it will be the plan. right now though, its bullshit. As soon as people start stealing and destroying these 5000-500000 dollar robots all of the potential profit goes out the window.

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    everyone knows its just going to be indians in a data center in india controlling the bots.

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    11 hours ago

    I tend to disbelieve this, mainly because a humanoid robot would be overkill. Custom-purpose robots would be much cheaper to design, build and maintain, with fewer potential failure points.

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      Eh I dunno there’s so much infrastructure that is human centric; if you could make a humanoid robot it could easily traverse all the human designed places

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        The main problem is walking on unpredictable terrain, which spidery or doggy robots can do with fewer balance issues than two-legged humanoid ones.

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          Also doors and gates

          They may also have concluded that the public finds a humanoid robot more acceptable than those cube 4-wheeled robots that never took off that people like to tip and kick over and stuff

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    Bro that is so gonna get HitchBot’ed

    a photo was tweeted, showing that the robot had been stripped “beyond repair” and decapitated in Philadelphia. The robot was located by some people following its progress on its website. The head was never found.

    Also, like… if you wanna replace human workers, fine, just give us the UBI.

    Otherwise, riots would be justified.

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    11 hours ago

    humanoid robot: dances

    amazon: shock

    humanoid robot: makes coffee

    amazon: shock

    humanoid robot: delivers package

    amazon: friendly shock

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    I can’t wait to throw a Faraday blanket over one of these and jtag some open source firmware on it. What do you mean steal? I didn’t steal anything, I just repurposed some garbage left on my front step!

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    Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.

    These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.

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      Yeah, humans regularly deliver stuff wrong on our street. There is no way robots will manage. I get packages for both by neighbours and they get mine more often than correct deliveries and one of my neighbours is a business.

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        Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.

        Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.

        If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.

        If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…

        So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.

        I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.

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        At my old workplace we ended up getting like a thousand toilet seats delivered to us. We were a web publishing firm.

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        What makes you think you can’t have individualized instructions for harder to reach addresses? After the first failure it’s pretty trivial to go out and fix it. Google does far more work maintaining maps and directions services.

        Vs having a new delivery guy get confused every other week?

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        What you just described is humans causing the issue, drone delivery would absolutely solve your problem.

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          Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.

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            Amazon’s drone delivery is trash, you’re correct. But eventually it will be significantly better than humans, input gps location and the product will be at that exact location give or take 1 foot

            Take a look at ziplines upcoming drone delivery service for instance, it will be significantly better than Amazon’s and will be way better than a human delivery driver.

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              eventually

              It’s been ten fucking years. They are one of the top five companies in the world. What are we waiting for here?

              All of the investors that originally paid into the idea have already made their money. There is no reason to continue the project.

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          The drone’s only as good as its software, the map it’s using, and the address data it’s given. All of which were created by fallible humans.

          Ain’t it fun having turtles all the way down?

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            43.9454776, -123.5393014

            ^ no address, GPS is very very precise.

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          Down voted for the obvious observation. A drone just needs to get explicit instructions ones a report is filled and it won’t be an issue. Google does more work on Google maps IMO.

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      Amazon just rolled out their first production drone delivery SSD site in Phoenix. It’s sorta shit though.

      Zipline is way more interesting and I cant wait for them to go live in my area.

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      Airspace rules are a huge factor there. I see delivery robots on the sidewalk often enough though.

      I suspect most companies are still waiting out the testing and waiting for costs to be reduced.

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    If i see a humanoid robot delivering a package i will throw bricks at it and then pee on it, in the way a 3 year old would during a tantrum.

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      I, for one, will certainly not loot it for parts, unless it has an unfortunate accident, in which case I’m just recycling trash that someone left out.

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      Remember that hitch hiking robot that made it across Canada but only made it to New Jersey (started in NYC) in America? These will 100% get the same treatment everywhere on earth.

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        Not only Canada, but also Japan and Europe.
        The main difference is that these robots kind of deserve it. Not “personally” but for what they represent.