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Robots In 2020: Lending a Helping Hand To Humans (And Each Other)
Lashdots writes: In the next five years, robots won't kill us (or drive our cars). But they will get better at helping us do routine tasks—and at helping each other too. Those are some of the predictions Fast Company gleaned from some of the robotics firms on its "most innovative" list, including Anki Robotics, robot-based genetic testing startup Counsyl, and Lockheed Martin, which has demonstrated a pair of unmanned aerial vehicles that work together to fight fires. I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars.
the burglars will be robots, too.
With the push for higher minimum wage for low/no skill jobs, I'm sure there will be more focus on robots that can flip burgers and serve up milk shakes. These types of robots are actually possible with todays technology, only they weren't economical, however if you have to pay McD employee's $30K a year, they will make more sense to the restaurant and fast food industry.
obligatory xkcd
Antisthenes: "Wisdom begins by examining the words/names." - excuse my English, i am (slightly...) better with my Greek!
get it robot now from a robot!
https://youtu.be/7HFTPGh0_hc
6 extra seconds!
I got my wife a Roomba vacuum robot 6 or 7 years ago. She admitted to me that at first she thought it was a waste of money. But after using it for a day or two, she changed her mind completely. We set it up to clean the first floor of our house at night. We just got a Neato BotVac series one this week. It's a big improvement over the older Roomba.We still run the upright vacuum cleaner every couple of weeks. But in a house with three large dogs, it would be a daily chore w/o the robot vacuums. It's not Rosie the robot, but they are a time saver for us.
I think my daughter was a little disappointed. She was expecting to be able to have a conversation with the Roomba one. Or at least R2D2 level of responses.
"I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars."
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
er...not doing too well.
As long as the sexbots are released first.
I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars.
Why not drones that *cut burglars* and *deter the lawn* from growing?
Oh right, that would involve harming humans. Seems like a much more interesting solution to me, though.
then nothing of this will materialize.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
They already are...
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what about basic income or we can just the have the displaced workers gum up the works what do they care if they are losing the jobs any ways hell the they can let the jail take care of there room and board + doctors.
Just send in the riot squad to beat up the angry unemployed, then charge anyone who tries to organise with inciting a terrorist act.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. --- Bertrand Russell.
I'm really surprised that fast food and other low-skill, low-wage work hasn't been replaced by robots already. {...} Fast food isn't a skill. It doesn't even come close to coffee shop barista {...} If it costs $200,000 per year to pay employees to work a fast food restaurant, and that cost can be reduced to $60,000 per year by the introduction of a half a million dollars of machinery that will last for a decade, these companies would be nuts to not replace workers with robots.
Indeed. But on the other hand, we human tend to be social being. And we tend to appreciate contact with other humans.
Some older people would insist that they *definitely* need to interact with a human being taking order at the cash register, and they *definitely* need to see humans flipping burger in the kitchen behind.
They would find alienating to pass order to a machine and have their burger prepared by a assembly-line machine.
And add to that, that people will be down in the streets protesting that they are loosing jobs, and you can see why fast-food chains are a bit reluctant to start automate everything.
But old people get older, and newer younger generations come. And our current generation, is way too much self-absorbed to care. We are too much busy tweeting and posting on facebook while in line to even care if our orders are taken by an automat or a real person : it's just a distraction delaying us from typing a reply to a youtube comment on the smartphone.
The barriers to accelerating fast-food with assembly-line like robots isn't a technical one, but a sociological one. The fast-food companies needed that the population gets used to it.
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> I'm just waiting for drones that will simultaneously cut my lawn and deter burglars.
They will cut you and deter burglars from their lawn...
As soon as someone invents a robot that can sort the lights from the darks and not overload the machine I buy into the hype. Once they have an affordable dish washing robot I'll buy.