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It turned out it was harder than everyone thought? I keep waiting for the house building robot https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/hadrian-the-construction
by chadcmulligan 4y ago
It turned out it was harder than everyone thought? I keep waiting for the house building robot https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/hadrian-the-construction-robot-to-build-eight-houses-in-western-australia/ https://www.globalconstructionreview.com/hadrian-the-constru... but still waiting. I think it was musk who said (or words to this effect), it turns out people are very good at handling the odd things that happen that robots can't. This was after he said he could automate all the Tesla build.
- muzani 4y agoI wonder if it's really about being hard, or just a matter of budget.
- chadcmulligan 4y agoTesla had a crazy budget, but they still couldn't automate everything
- muzani 4y agoI mean more about ROI. We can't automate everything obviously. We can replace some janitors with floor sweeping robots and toilet cleaning robots, but who's going to clean under the sink? We've had car assembly robots for decades because the ROI is incredible. Burger flipping robots less so. McDonald's does flip lots of burgers worldwide and apparently the bots are saving some money. But they flip a lot of burgers, so it's likely they haven't replaced all humans yet.