Google robot is 'the end of manual labor': VC

[Returntosender]

Cool. Well that'll be the end of the world as we know it.

It was fun while it lasted

Everything comes to end eventually.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Got robots to fix the robots?

 

[DumbTruckDriver]

Got robots to fix the robots?

Turtles all the way down.

 

[clean hairy]

Robots to do the yearly physicals?
Only problem I see is "turn your head and cough", but how does it make sure not to squeeze TOO hard?

 

[watdaflock?]

Computers and programs like Orion will end management/sup positions a heck of lot sooner than robots will replace labor positions at UPS.

 

[SubPop79]

Statements like "...the end of manual labor" just show how little people not doing the labor actually know about the labor involved.

Honestly, I don't see anything like this becoming a reality in a next 100 years. The cost to make a robot, to the cost of maintainence and repair...

If anything, you drivers will be the first to go in 20 years.

What is that thing doing right now? 5 PPH? How would it break jams? How would it move a diverter? Sure it can pick up and set down a box, but can it actually make a wall? How would it know if there was a hazmat spill?

Turning UPS hubs into automated assembly lines is much more realistic IMO.

 

[Wally]

 

[3838373]

I'm thinking that'll happen in 30 or so years. Not 20.

I agree I would say in about 30 years... In about 50 years I would guess there will be ZERO human delivery jobs.

The feeders will be the first to go..

 

[clean hairy]

I guess we will have robot police officers?

 

[JL 0513]

I guess we will have robot police officers?

 

[rod]

I guess we will have robot police officers?

The ones around here are that way now.

 

[olroadbeech]

it is the evolving nature of business.
adapt or perish.
people have always moaned about progress......horseless carriage, et al.

encourage your children to explore robotics .

 

[Orion inc.]

it is the evolving nature of business.
adapt or perish.
people have always moaned about progress......horseless carriage, et al.

encourage your children to explore robotics .

 

[Brownslave688]

it is the evolving nature of business.
adapt or perish.
people have always moaned about progress......horseless carriage, et al.

encourage your children to explore robotics .

Actually we are getting into another level here.

Taking away All manual labor which will eventually be possible is a dangerous thing.

 

[Coldworld]

Turtles all the way down.

Yep when the world is done and everything else has flushed down the toilet the only thing that will be around are 100 year old turtles reclaiming their oceans... And I'm ok with that

 

[Nike]

You guys are tripping, was this article next to the ones about lithium batteries blowing up in hoverboards? There will come a point where this stuff hits a wall. Why? Because how are we going to actually power robots to do all this work? If my phone can barely last a day at work how exactly is a robot going to do a full days work?

 

[olroadbeech]

Actually we are getting into another level here.

Taking away All manual labor which will eventually be possible is a dangerous thing.

i actually agree with you. that's unsettling.

 

[Coldworld]

"That ups supervisor is burning up his clutch and is in the truck crying on the phone to his boss!!"

 

[Coldworld]

" oh don't worry it's just scratch hot doggin' again!!"

 

[DriveInDriveOut]

"Meet the Kinema Pick. It’s a self-taught robot capable of breaking down large pallets of cardboard boxes, and it’s probably going to steal a lot of jobs someday."
http://gizmodo.com/damn-its-really-complicated-to-make-a-robot-pick-up-a-1769616498