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A house keeper? No. Imo the use case is for jobs that are easy, necessary, and low utilization where you mostly pay people to be present and available but not a
by jncfhnb 2y ago
A house keeper? No. Imo the use case is for jobs that are easy, necessary, and low utilization where you mostly pay people to be present and available but not actually doing anything. The value here is the ability to scale up and down quickly. Can’t do that with real humans.
The ease of swapping different expertise in to the same body as needed could also potentially be useful.
> If you say yes, ask yourself why even bother reshoring manufacturing at higher cost and with trade barriers.
Mostly the reasoning to onshore things is to ensure independence on manufacturing critical resources despite the competitive disadvantage; not a jobs program.
- trzy 2y agoHow do you scale up and down with $20k robots that have to be operated by individual humans?
- jncfhnb 2y agoA human has to be paid for being present. A robot can be remotely activated as needed. If you need 5 minutes of labor somewhere over an 8 hour period, you can pay for 5 minutes if labor by having a person that jumps between bots.