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It's hilarious watching $50,000 worth of robots take so long to assemble a couple dollars worth of Lego. It's like peering into the old folks home for robots.
by gilgoomesh 1y ago
It's hilarious watching $50,000 worth of robots take so long to assemble a couple dollars worth of Lego. It's like peering into the old folks home for robots.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoThat should tell you why stuff is still hand assembled in Asia instead of by robots in the west.
- smikhanov 1y agoAlso why it’s OK to stop worrying about our future robotic (or AI) overlords.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoThose are already an issue. AI is a bigger threat to cognitive tasks than to physical ones. Skynet isn't goanna attack you with Terminators wielding a "phased plasma rifle in the 40W range", but will be auto-rejecting your job application, your health insurance claims, your credit score and brain washing your relatives on social media.
- smikhanov 1y agoAbsolutely, that’s without any doubt. There’s a difference though. The “cool” Terminator Skynet pursues its own goals, and wasn’t programmed by humans to kill. The “boring” insurance-rejecting Skynet is explicitly programmed to reject insurance claims by other humans, unfortunately. So still, no need to worry about our AI overlords, worry about people running the AI systems.
- imtringued 1y ago> AI is a bigger threat to cognitive tasks than to physical ones. I don't see how you could possibly think this is true. Physical automation is easier to scale since you only need to solve a single problem instance and then just keep applying it on a bigger scale.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoAutomation doesn't work where high dexterity and quick adaptability is required. You can much cheaper and quicker to train a human worker to move from sewing a Nike shoe to an Adidas shoe than you can reprogram and retool a robot. Robots work for highly predictable high speed tasks where dexterity is not an issue, like PCB pick and place.
- davidthewatson 1y agoThis reply is so perfect I'm going to memorize it for family and friends.
- femto 1y agoAs a counterexample, I offer a pick-and-place line in action. https://youtu.be/Ca-SoKzjh4M?t=110 https://youtu.be/Ca-SoKzjh4M?t=110 SMT component placement isn't that different to placing bricks. Conventional wisdom is that if you can design a PCB that requires no manual work, its assembly cost is more-or-less location independent. SMT pick and place can hit speeds of 200,000 components per hour [1]. That's about 50 components per second. [1] https://www.hallmarknameplate.com/smt-process/ https://www.hallmarknameplate.com/smt-process/
- imtringued 1y agoFixturing isn't automated in most places. Sure a gantry style CNC machine can drive screws vertically into your parts to join them, but it requires a human loader to put the two parts onto the fixture in the first place.
- FirmwareBurner 1y agoThe tasks requiring high dexterity like final assembly of the product with displays, keyboards, ribbon cables and cases is still done by humans by hand.
- Zobat 1y agoPeople claim that Lego is expensive, but try buying a robot that builds Lego...
- KurSix 1y agoGive it a decade and we'll probably have robo-builders doing it faster than we can blink…
- cruffle_duffle 1y agoI would certainly hope the laundry robots come first. Screw Lego robots and self driving cars. Please just take the laundry out of the dryer, fold it all and put it away.
- LargeWu 1y agoFirst AI is creating our art and pretty soon it will be playing with our toys for us too