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How do you bootstrap a robot factory if you need the factory's output to make the robots?
by gaius 9y ago
How do you bootstrap a robot factory if you need the factory's output to make the robots?
- logicallee 9y agomaybe very slowly with the just a few workers wearing super expensive hazmat space-suits with their own self-contained breathing systems. that probably wouldn't scale to production volumes but could make sense if you're building a one-off robotic factory. but nobody answered the question - are the normal outputs of a factory also toxic, or just what goes on inside? would a robotic factory even "solve" the issue?
- e12e 9y agoYou can't grind up a circuit board or chip and eat it (or drink it) - which down the line leads to problems: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_Guiyu https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_waste_in_Guiyu That is to say, one would need proper recycling in order to avoid toxicity for the entire life cycle of products.