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I'd have preferred it if the trucks/tractors were fully autonomous, now that would have been awesome :)
by singular 15y ago
I'd have preferred it if the trucks/tractors were fully autonomous, now that would have been awesome :)
- barefoot 15y agoOr run by mechanical turk HITs...
- omegant 15y agoThat is what I imagined in the first place. How cool it would be to have your garden or diy proyect being taken care by small autonomous machines like that. No danger of being smashed if something goes wrong, cheaper parts, if one has a mechanical problems not everything is stoped, just a fraction of the work force...
- singular 15y agoAnd it can be running 24/7 while you're sleeping/playing skyrim/etc./etc. which would be indescribably awesome :)
- mistermann 15y ago>playing sky rim Screw that, I'd be sitting in my lawn chair watching the trucks all day!
- jxcole 15y agoThe fact that he was able to do it at all means that this should be a logical next step. There may even be a business idea here. Program good enough Computer Vision and planning AI you could loan a set of autonomous robots to someone and pick them up after 6 months when the job is complete. It would probably be much cheaper than the human alternative.
- marshallp 15y agoYou don't even have to program. Set it up to be controlled by people in india or china. This kind of business could be set up in a few days, and which begs the question - how com no-one is doing this. There's companies trying to sell laptops on a stick (anybots) whereas this is a genuinely useful service. Trevor Blackwell should be able to get something like that up in day, he did a segway clone in a day.
- rdouble 15y agohow com no-one is doing this because it takes 7 years to dig out a single basement?
- marshallp 15y agoThat's only because he was doing it as a hobby and because it's one person. A team of workers with larger equipment working 24 hours a day in shifts over the internet could get it done much quicker and cheaper. In addition to digging basements, there's also grass cutting, delivery bots in restaurants, hospitals, tractor driving.
- andylei 15y agohaving people in india control it is probably isn't that much cheaper than hiring someone to actually drive it. it mostly likely does not cover your costs of developing systems to remotely control expensive and destructive construction equipment from thousands of miles away.