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> the robots use the same walkways as the humans. How much of this is that the robots are far newer than the buildings? How soon till new buildings are designe
by hnbear 2y ago
> the robots use the same walkways as the humans.
How much of this is that the robots are far newer than the buildings? How soon till new buildings are designed with designated robotic paths?
Plenty of buildings are designed with hidden back-of-the-building areas and access routes for maintenance humans. I assume pretty soon they'll have the same for robots too. Then we'll really hit the Star Trek "time to climb through a duct to save the day/stuck robot" type situations.
- BurningFrog 2y agoIt will be much cheaper, and not that hard to make the robots super safe and considerate.
- ssrc 2y agoAnd then we send them to Jupiter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Unintentional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Unintentional
- wongarsu 2y agoWe do that all the time, we just don't usually consider them to be robots. Car factories have all kinds of vehicles transporting car parts along tracks, ceiling mounted rails, etc. Nobody bats an eye about that. If you squint hard enough elevators are a kind of robot on a designated pathway. But to be called a robot it has to have some human-like (or at least animal-like) quality. Which usually involves either imitating human arms (e.g. typical industrial robot arms), imitating human movement (e.g. Boston dynamics) or using infrastructure designed for humans. If you put a delivery robot on a purpose-built path it has none of those qualities and reverts back to being a normal machine.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> Plenty of buildings are designed with hidden back-of-the-building areas and access routes for maintenance humans. I assume pretty soon they'll have the same for robots too. Then we'll really hit the Star Trek "time to climb through a duct to save the day/stuck robot" type situations. For some reason, it appears to be a major priority for people to drill tiny holes and channels all through their house so their cables can run through them, out of sight. This is a huge hassle as far as installation goes, but it makes up for it by also being a huge hassle as far as maintenance goes. What's the problem supposed to be with running cables through clips on the wall? That you'll know they're there? That you can easily access them?
- mschuster91 2y ago> For some reason, it appears to be a major priority for people to drill tiny holes and channels all through their house so their cables can run through them, out of sight. This is a huge hassle as far as installation goes, but it makes up for it by also being a huge hassle as far as maintenance goes. Install flexible plastic tubes instead and you can just pull out cables when you need to replace them for whatever reason.
- sokoloff 2y agoAppearances (which I suspect you know, but just value it less than most). People want to see a finished wall, not cables, pipes, and ducts.