this post was submitted on 31 Oct 2024
242 points (96.9% liked)

Technology

60021 readers
3355 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
242
Boston Dynamic show off their brand new Atlas (youtu.be)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology
83 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

They still have the hockey stick around as a reminder to Atlas.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] AA5B 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Current robots are better when designed for a specific job, but that means only corps with enough scale can afford robots

What about much smaller companies that can’t afford to design and build a robot for a specific task? There are thousands of these companies, doing things at smaller scale so not able to automate. However a robot with similar capabilities to a human, that could be trained like a human, and doesn’t cost like an industrial robot, can fill in for a human at all of these companies

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean in the far distant future... yeah I agree.

But back to preset times, when robots like these are cheap enough for a small company to buy over hiring someone, then it will be cheap enough to buy custom robots too.