return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoFear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factoryarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down12
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minus-squarequeermunist she/her@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 day agoIt took several hundred years to make factories even reasonably safe for humans to work in, and yet still, workplace injuries are extremely common because the human form is simply bad at doing this kind of work. It’s trash.
minus-squaremagnue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoAll factories with human workers are optimised for human movement as much as possible (5s etc). It benefits the factory. It should be pretty obvious why a humanoid robot that can do anything a human can do, could be easy to implement in these factories. Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.
It took several hundred years to make factories even reasonably safe for humans to work in, and yet still, workplace injuries are extremely common because the human form is simply bad at doing this kind of work. It’s trash.
All factories with human workers are optimised for human movement as much as possible (5s etc). It benefits the factory.
It should be pretty obvious why a humanoid robot that can do anything a human can do, could be easy to implement in these factories.
Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.