You'd be surprised how much "deal with unpredicted stuff" construction work entails. Indeed, robots already can hammer nails into walls. Or dig holes. But we s

You'd be surprised how much "deal with unpredicted stuff" construction work entails. Indeed, robots already can hammer nails into walls. Or dig holes. But we still pay construction workers to do these things (well, usually operating tools/machines - but we decidedly don't let those devices operate themselves). And it turns out that the results of them following orders too literally (like a robot would) tends to lead to funny (or tragic) videos clips. See also this recent HN article, which discusses (the failures of) automating a much more restricted task in a seemingly straightforward domain: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054606 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28054606