This could have been written 50 years ago when welding robots were introduced into car assembly lines. We're just stepping on the gas a little harder now, and putting a tie on them. Nice piece.
I think it's going to be a step change unlike anything we've seen before, which is what this substack will attempt to be about.
Welding robots did take jobs, they did increase throughput, it's just that they weren't scalable out into rest of the world. Industrial bots with their articulated manipulators don't really fit in with humans, the world has to be made to fit them, which means they are confined to manufacturing and other specialised applications.
In theory, a sufficiently competent humanoid robot would be a drop in replacement for a human doing almost any kind of current "human job", no modifications required, except for maybe swapping the break room for some charging points. This tech is rapidly approaching, once it's achieved it'll be all about the economics and the cost to own and operate a bot versus human labor.
This could have been written 50 years ago when welding robots were introduced into car assembly lines. We're just stepping on the gas a little harder now, and putting a tie on them. Nice piece.
I think it's going to be a step change unlike anything we've seen before, which is what this substack will attempt to be about.
Welding robots did take jobs, they did increase throughput, it's just that they weren't scalable out into rest of the world. Industrial bots with their articulated manipulators don't really fit in with humans, the world has to be made to fit them, which means they are confined to manufacturing and other specialised applications.
In theory, a sufficiently competent humanoid robot would be a drop in replacement for a human doing almost any kind of current "human job", no modifications required, except for maybe swapping the break room for some charging points. This tech is rapidly approaching, once it's achieved it'll be all about the economics and the cost to own and operate a bot versus human labor.
Thanks for reading!