Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. - Digit is a humanoid bipedal robot from Agility Robotics.
Amazon's humanoid warehouse robots will eventually cost only $3 per hour to operate. That won't calm workers' fears of being replaced. - Digit is a humanoid bipedal robot from Agility Robotics.
The robot's human-like shape is bound to reignite workers' fears of being replaced, but Amazon says they're designed to "work collaboratively."
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I mean replacing jobs that are basically just being a humanoid robot is actually not a bad thing...
It wouldn't be if the generation of jobs that aren't just being a humanoid robot was 1:1 with their replacement. Instead, we're just treading the edge of forcing people out of the workforce with nothing for them to go to that's in the forced-out's skillset. Where's the training-up, as opposed to the forcing-out?
Further, are we really just gonna take Amazon at their word regarding "oh, they're meant to work collaboratively with a human workforce, not replace them!" Cause I sure as shit don't.
You simply don't need so many people when you replace humanoid robots with actual robots...
And what's the recompense for the ones who "aren't needed"? "Wish you luck, get out"? They're just supposed to make a not-nearly-enough unemployment check stretch because some shitbag C-suite deemed them unnecessary and/or not worth paying? The seemingly naively-optimistic IFLS angle on robotics is going to only exacerbate the "motherfuckers aren't hiring" crisis we're still living through.
I mean thats what happened when industry 2.0 and 3.0 happened as well. Now we are at 4.0 and need less people and higher skills.
But what I'm saying is what we're living now is unsustainable without HEAVY changes to the way our society operates-- and you seem to just want to exacerbate that already existing crisis, and introduce us to a brand new one. Not all of us-- as a matter of fact, precious few of us-- have the capabilities, either liquid resource or intangible resource-wise, to actually upskill in the West.
Less people less unsustainablity.
How positively monstrous.
No. Im just telling the truth.
yeah you are
I get what you mean, but what are millions of people going to do for work instead?
There are enough other places that need workers...