re: Livestream of humanoid robot performing manual work ETA: machine vs. human over

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ETA: Now machine vs. human

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Need to get Dwight on the case.

I ordered a Frank T-shirt today. Not sure why, but I couldn't help it.

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Man must have stepped it up he was behind around 500 at one point.

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The intern would get behind when he took breaks, then catch up when he went back to work.


ETA I just realized why I bought the Frank shirt, deep down I thought it might buy me some sympathy when they take over.

If your paid to flip packages over and slide them 2 feet you deserve to lose your job.

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Yea unskilled workers are screwed.

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I think it goes a lot farther than that.

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My sister in law is a surgeon I told her the other day she is about to be replaced and she laughed and said no robot is replacing her. I pointed out to her that a robot is already doing her surgeries with her controlling the input. They really don’t need her controlling the input much longer.

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My wife is a CT surgeon, and everything she does is open, but interventional cardiologists have started doing a lot of cases she would have done and doing them laparoscopically, often using a da Vinci. Those cardiologists are just one step away from being replaced. A lot of my wife's friends who are interventional cardiologists are retiring from cath lab work fairly young due to radiation exposure; robots don't really care about radiation as long as their processors are shielded well enough. Doing open surgery gives my wife a little more time, but she is just two steps away.

I used to think most jobs were safe, I am beginning to think no jobs are safe. It could be a flying car prediction though...

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It will have to be charged.

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These have been running ~3 hour shifts, when they get low on battery they signal to the other robots and their relief walks over and switches with them.