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Human beings are the best general purpose machines in the universe. We can handle an egg, and in the next moment power-lift 500 lbs, we can walk up a mountain,
by thinkloop 10y ago
Human beings are the best general purpose machines in the universe. We can handle an egg, and in the next moment power-lift 500 lbs, we can walk up a mountain, or slide down a hill, we can swim the bottom of the ocean or jump out of a plane.
I think exos shine in one-off situations, where it is too costly to build a specialized machine; or where many abilities and specialized machines are needed to accomplish the task.
Simple, repetitive actions will almost always be better handled by machines.
The use-cases exos will be good for are likely not any that are currently solved by individual machines. They will be for new actions previously not feasible, or to replace a set of actions being accomplished with a bunch of machines, for cheaper.