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Uh, what evidence do you have of this "wide scale robotic deployment"? More humanoid robots have been announced lately but that is all I know of. Humanoid robo

Uh, what evidence do you have of this "wide scale robotic deployment"? More humanoid robots have been announced lately but that is all I know of. Humanoid robots have many, many challenges to deployment. Especially, creating a machine that people can safely operate near is extremely challenging. The amount of intelligence person uses to not bump another person is very under rated.

robinhoode 3y ago
It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Moravec's paradox is still in play, but advancement in AI chips will slowly overcome it.
- Intralexical 3y ago
  > But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?
  - wepple 3y ago
    Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead
    - ok_dad 3y ago
      I don’t think you understand how hard it is to retool and rearrange a factory.
      - wepple 3y ago
        I’m saying if you have a collection of humanoids and general purpose tooling, you can adapt much faster. I don’t literally mean retool a conventional production line in one night
        ok_dad 3y ago
        So basically just robots with tools? It might work.
  - ben_w 3y ago
    Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.
- umeshunni 3y ago
  > But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics. FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.
  - delfinom 3y ago
    They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%
    - throwaway2037 3y ago
      Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai. > Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.
- joe_the_user 3y ago
  But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. I believe robots are currently making car parts in abundance. The robots usually are like a box with a hydraulic arm or something equivalent. The specially and especially hard part of humanoid robots is justifying the cost and complexity of the construction by having them by "walk-on replacements" for humans and so they have failed entirely at being that.

robinhoode 3y ago

It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Moravec's paradox is still in play, but advancement in AI chips will slowly overcome it.

Intralexical 3y ago
> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?
- wepple 3y ago
  Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead
  - ok_dad 3y ago
    I don’t think you understand how hard it is to retool and rearrange a factory.
    - wepple 3y ago
      I’m saying if you have a collection of humanoids and general purpose tooling, you can adapt much faster. I don’t literally mean retool a conventional production line in one night
      - ok_dad 3y ago
        So basically just robots with tools? It might work.
- ben_w 3y ago
  Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.
umeshunni 3y ago
> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics. FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.
- delfinom 3y ago
  They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%
  - throwaway2037 3y ago
    Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai. > Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.
joe_the_user 3y ago
But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. I believe robots are currently making car parts in abundance. The robots usually are like a box with a hydraulic arm or something equivalent. The specially and especially hard part of humanoid robots is justifying the cost and complexity of the construction by having them by "walk-on replacements" for humans and so they have failed entirely at being that.