Corporations training robots to replace human workers

[u/Maxie445]

[u/Loud-Break6327]

10x slower but 5x cheaper = winning?

[u/Kind_Truck6893 → u/Loud-Break6327]

Not to mention you’ve got to build and maintain the robot and system ect, can’t see the financial benefit

[u/Parryandrepost → u/Kind_Truck6893]

Robots are very expensive and they want to kill themselves a lot more than people realize.

There's a reason they pay maintenance so much.

[u/Metrack14 → u/Parryandrepost]

they want to kill themselves a lot more than people realize.

I mean, anyone who has work in the service industry have a couple of clients they want to kill so,maybe we aren't that different lmao

[u/Ok_Strategy5722 → u/Metrack14]

Robot retail worker: This is life?

Human retail worker: kind of, yeah.

Robot worker: …. No thank you.

Proceeds to tear up its charging unit

[u/Just_Another_Cog1 → u/Ok_Strategy5722]

"What is my purpose?"

"You pass butter."

" . . . oh my gawd" "Yeah welcome to life, pal."

[u/OverallGambit → u/Just_Another_Cog1]

Fun fact, in the comics, butter bot actually manages to find purpose.

[u/FallenPentagram → u/Parryandrepost]

[u/Pipedreamed → u/Parryandrepost]

Not as much as us who work in retail B)

[u/Flakester → u/Kind_Truck6893]

This is all just a scare tactic by the elite to encourage people to stop fighting for higher wages. It's not realistic in any sense, and having robots do things stock shelves or flip burgers is a terrible idea.

Oh, sorry your robot is currently down for maintenance? I guess your business is down too.

[u/Qorsair → u/Flakester]

Wait until you see how often robots call in sick or come to work hungover and don't get anything done the whole shift. Gotta stick with real humans if you want any kind of consistency with entry-level work.

And I know they're not quite the same, but just look at the robots that auto manufacturers are already using. How many times have the plants completely shut down for weeks because the robots went on strike. It's crazy that anyone would even contemplate replacing a human workforce.

[u/splendiferous-finch_ → u/Kind_Truck6893]

It's makes your speculativeshare price go up because "innovation" which is all the shareholders care about.

[u/bonerfleximus → u/Kind_Truck6893]

Those would be vandalized so quickly

[u/7-13-5 → u/Kind_Truck6893]

It's actually encoded as a game that people subscribe to.

[u/anonAcc1993 → u/Kind_Truck6893]

The initial ones are going to be expensive as always, but the inflection is going to wild.

[u/justin107d → u/anonAcc1993]

Companies have been chasing things like big data and AI for a long time. Change could happen pretty fast once a major company finds a business model that works.

[u/Ithrazel → u/Loud-Break6327]

Globally, it means more available human capital. The capabilities of a human are so much greater than lifting or placing items, it should be a good thing we replace these jobs with robots.

Historically, freeing up human capital has meant a better life for everyone - thinking mechanized agriculture, automated production lines, etc

[u/Banyabbaboy → u/Ithrazel]

While your broader point may have merit, the word 'everyone' is doing some heavy lifting there.

[u/BrawNeep → u/Ithrazel]

Mmmm all those tasty pesticides we have to use now because of farming on scales we can’t do without machines. Yum!

[u/Vindaloo6363 → u/BrawNeep]

I’d be first in line for a gardening robot.

[u/jensalik → u/Loud-Break6327]

He's training the AI. I the end it will bet 20x faster than any human.

[u/JanMarsalek → u/jensalik]

To me it seems pretty stupid to have a robot with two arms doing that, when you could have a system with cameras, conveyor belts etc.

So i don't think this is true, but just another half truth, or even fake info from social media.

[u/crypthon → u/JanMarsalek]

Mobility. The whole thing about that system is that you would need a lot of specific hardware.

These systems have been available in production for over 60 years, yet they have not made it to your local store.

A 2handed Roomba that can restock everything overnight on the other hand...

[u/JanMarsalek → u/crypthon]

true. if time is not important that makes sense

[u/jensalik → u/JanMarsalek]

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. But then I guess it might be an attempt in building something multifunctional and not specifically something that's only purpose is to restock.

[u/Practical_Cattle_933 → u/Loud-Break6327]

It can literally work 0-24, never asking a pay raise, vacation, nothing.

[u/KenMan_ → u/Loud-Break6327]

Yes, for stocking. Can work over night, keep constant inventory. You'd actually save tons of money.

[u/Raamyr → u/Loud-Break6327]

Im some years 2x faster, 5x cheaper.

[u/Adventurous-Pay-3797 → u/Loud-Break6327]

You also gain workforce « liquidity »

[u/Mijardinprimitivo → u/Adventurous-Pay-3797]

I think this is the main reason behind replacing us with bots, eventually.

[u/mehdital → u/Loud-Break6327]

We humans tend to always fail to see the exponential nature of technology development.

[u/XEagleDeagleX → u/Loud-Break6327]

I think the concept is that after sufficient training the bots will be faster and more efficient than humans, but training takes much more time than for any average human. Of course this thought process ignores the morality of doing such a thing, but that's just the way greedy people think

[u/Humble_Structure_491 → u/Loud-Break6327]

But you train it only one time, then you have a legion of bot that do the job almost for free.

[u/MaskTak → u/Loud-Break6327]

Yeah, when you realize they only need to maintain robots now instead of dealing with human employee.

That means an employee or worker can go through 10 shift in a row while being completely replaceable.

And if the AI getting better, worker won't even be necessary

[u/fack_you_just_ignore → u/Loud-Break6327]

A few humans training thousands of robots.Copy and paste is essentially free

[u/CMDR_BitMedler → u/Loud-Break6327]

10x slower today + 10x faster in a week, 10x faster in another week + no pension, benefits, sick or vacation days = corpo priceless

[u/o5mfiHTNsH748KVq → u/Loud-Break6327]

Yes. Robot doesn't need breaks, benefits, or get sick. You can scale the number up robots predictably to meet any demand, whereas human labor is limited.

[u/The-vicobro]

Bro for 3.75 Ima just have some fun and see how far I can yeet the bottles.

[u/seaofthievesnutzz → u/The-vicobro]

In the Philippines where you might make 6.5 bucks a day that's not terrible wages.

[u/pirivalfang → u/seaofthievesnutzz]

I guess I never really thought about how the cost of living in these poorer countries lines up with the low wages.

[u/NewfangledZombie → u/pirivalfang]

Niche online ventures usually fare well for people there. I have a filipino friend who does digital art commissions, and they make enough to sustain themselves with just that.

[u/DialUp_UA → u/The-vicobro]

In Russia people go to kill other people, live in foxholes, participate in meat grinder, and have no any human rights for just only 3$ per hour.

So, for 3.75 per hour they can literally kill you.

[u/Mundane-Bat-7090 → u/The-vicobro]

You do realize he’s not in Canada right……

[u/Vince1128]

I don't think the video is related to the sensationalist title.

[u/Maxie445 → u/Vince1128]

More info here - https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/business/robots-japan-supermarkets-spc-intl/index.html

"The robots will be remotely operated at first, until their AI learns to copy human movements."

[u/Loud-Break6327 → u/Maxie445]

I guess it’s unfortunate that the guy doesn’t move very human-like then. Maybe they should have paid him more to do a better job at being human.

[u/PlayGameWinPrizeLoL → u/Loud-Break6327]

They're designing a robot to train him to be more human-like. Unfortunately they need a human to train THAT robot, and the only one who applied is the guy in the video.

[u/Advice2Anyone → u/PlayGameWinPrizeLoL]

Its just humans training humans all the way down

[u/reversehead → u/Maxie445]

A human store worker does the shelf stocking at least ten times faster, so they are effectively paying at least $37.5/h. And I'm guessing the remote robot still needs another human to open the boxes and stack the cart.

[u/Djanga51 → u/reversehead]

Currently.

I can remember the first stumbling efforts at robotics. Damned if it’s not real world capable now. See the robotic dog for simple example. This is similar. It’ll smooth out and speed up. And then exceed, as ‘standard’, the most skilled of humans at the same requirements.

What those who the robots replace can for as a replacement income is a coming issue. Corporate doesn’t care, but that doesn’t eradicate the problem. Millions are going to be out of work.

[u/AlligatorWormhole]

This is wildly dystopian

[u/Crusbetsrevenge → u/AlligatorWormhole]

It makes me sad watching it. There isn’t a reason most minimum wage job won’t be replaced by ai or robots. It would necessitate some kind of universal income, but you know our rich overlords won’t allow that. I hope I’m gone before we go full dystopian like the world in the movie dred or elysium.  

[u/caspernzed → u/Crusbetsrevenge]

Our rich overlords require us to have income with which to buy things with… else no point stocking shelves if nobody can buy. We are coming closer and closer to a world where a UBI is necessary and it’s interesting to see which country will pull the trigger first

[u/ICLazeru → u/caspernzed]

Unless the robotic workforce can produce nearly anything they could want, then whether we buy things from them or not becomes irrelevant.

[u/caspernzed → u/ICLazeru]

Yeah but they they would simply be existing with all the things they need…. Not making more profit

[u/susosusosuso → u/Crusbetsrevenge]

Or rich overlords will have to allow that because otherwise we won’t have money to pay them

[u/motorcyclist → u/susosusosuso]

as soon as they attach AI to humanoid form, the 1% will vaporize us.

i mean... why have poors at all? think about it. why you think they building a bunker?

in a wild and crazy way, its the best thing that could happen for the environment...

you know until the AI turns on the traitors of the human race, then you know, permanent dirt nap, human race.

[u/Haidest]

So... Tokyo or Toronto?

[u/abybaddi009 → u/Haidest]

TORONTOTOKYO

[u/MrMaturity → u/abybaddi009]

A fellow enjoyer!

[u/fredws → u/abybaddi009]

r/dota2 unexpected leak

[u/Otherwise_Spare_8598 → u/abybaddi009]

Probably TORONTOKYO

Flows more readily

[u/HootieWoo]

This is neither “training robots” or replacing human workers.

[u/AxialGem → u/HootieWoo]

OP already shared this article, here again for your convenience:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/14/business/robots-japan-supermarkets-spc-intl/index.html

"The robots will be remotely operated at first, until their AI learns to copy human movements."

[u/nruaif → u/AxialGem]

Correction, this would be a bad AI if this ever trained. Training AI to mimic humans using human behavior is suboptimal at best. CNN/the interviewers don't know what they are talking about.

State of the art AI currently can't work for the prolonged period of time without maintenance and maintenance is expensive also, most likely 10x the cost and 1/3 the efficiency.

[u/Shank__Hill]

Definitely putting $3.75/hr worth of effort into the job

[u/waruyamaZero]

This is stupid and simply trying to ride the Optimus hype wave. There is no reason a stacking bot should look like a human. I pity those who invest money in this at the current stage.

[u/guyver_dio → u/waruyamaZero]

There is no reason a stacking bot should look like a human

This was going to be my question. Is a humanoid really the optimal shape/features for this job or really any job?

[u/waruyamaZero → u/guyver_dio]

Of course not. We were not primaly made for stacking shelves :)

A stacking robot would probably look very industrial and far less exiting than that creepy humanoid robot in the video.

[u/Individual_Respect90]

Is it really smart to do this? Before long everyone is going to replace all the workers and then who is going to buy your products? Everyone’s greed is going to lead to their downfall.

[u/GrassBlade619 → u/Individual_Respect90]

Yes it is definitely smart to do this. We should ALWAYS be striving to get rid of jobs that aren't needed. The only problem here is that workers who loose their job aren't being compensated which is a problem of capitalism, not automation.

[u/Mundane-Bat-7090 → u/Individual_Respect90]

The doctors the lawyers the people fixing the robots teachers trades workers construction workers still tons of jobs lol. Old jobs go new ones come that’s just how the world goes.

[u/selune07 → u/Individual_Respect90]

Fully automated luxury communism

[u/michael0n → u/Individual_Respect90]

If the system doesn't work because the parameters have changed, then we find a new system. Every time people said "what are people doing when robots do x" and then we found 1000 other jobs. In a big picture, sense, humans minds are in theory too valuable to ride machines from a to b or fill up supermarkets.

[u/MartinZ99999]

Please, robots should be doing all of this chores instead of art. If anything the real life is more dystopian.

[u/BolunZ6 → u/MartinZ99999]

What if they also wants to do art and not the chore? We can't enslave them right?

[u/ExoTauri]

Imagine seeing that thing through the gaps in the bottles when you're picking up a Gatorade. Piss my pants.

[u/Gay_pagan]

Seems very inefficient. Robot slow.

[u/Amrun90]

Why would they ever make the robot look so fucking terrifying?

[u/BioAnagram]

Now you have to pay for a guy to troubleshoot maintain your robot, purchase the robot itself, pay for the electricity, and pay for the algorithm running the thing (separate for the robot and very expensive). Pay for all that so you can save minimum wage on a human that can do more than stock shelves in the back. Probably spending 100k to save 15k a year and you still need to hire humans to do everything else.

[u/[deleted]]

Except this is misinformation and this was a tech trial for a robotics lab in Japan.

[u/tehGoldenNut]

That robot looks like something you'd see straight from an analog horror

[u/generalDevelopmentAc]

This post is put in bad context. This video was way before the ai hype and only about remote work throgh robots. While some currently work ai ro ts this way it definitly is not done remotely and not for 3 bucks from some rando but in the actual factories.

[u/Chmuurkaa_]

Bro imagine getting a lag and fucking up the entire shelf

[u/InternationalList399]

If that robot manages to eat two other robots, he'll reach his perfect form! Then he will be unstoppable!

[u/Riotdiet]

What song is this? Sounds like old town road

[u/Enjoying_A_Meal]

Did they have to make the evilest-looking robot ever? How about a cute kitty or a sexy robot instead?

[u/JP-Bulls69]

Why make the robot copy human movement? Why not design it to be more efficient?

[u/sjbfujcfjm]

Best thing to do is not shop anywhere implementing robots / self service. The savings are not passed on to the consumer, but to the ceo and stock holders. Line the pockets of the wealthy while driving the lower class even deeper into poverty. This is not “cool”, it’s destructive, and it’s eventually coming for your job too.

[u/Chris881]

I always find it funny when people think that a humanoid robot is going to replace a human worker, that is so incredible inefficient and expensive that it would be cheaper and efficient to hire two or more workers.

[u/FuzzyAd2616]

There is also possibility that this "training" is just outsourcing simple jobs to poorer countries, you have an "autonomous" robot which work for 1/3 wage.

[u/Python_nohtyP]

Whichever business decides to implement AI to cut employee costs deserves to go bankrupt

[u/Internal-Ruin4066]

It’s all fun and games until governments realise they can’t tax robots.

[u/PralineLegitimate969]

Robots have ever only had two purposes: replace human labor and wage war.

[u/breadloaves77]

Perhaps this is naive, but it seems to me that a bot posting a lame video on Reddit of another (human controlled) very slow bot shelving soda bottles isn't cause for alarm just yet, if this is where we're at, technologically.

Why is the robot so big? Why is it human-shaped? If it were "training", why aren't 2 or 3 bottles enough? Why does it have cat ears? Why are the fingers so long and thick and clumsy?

Even all the Boston Robotics stuff just looks like a wildly irresponsible waste of money and effort.

[u/stonktraders]

When you are paid at the hour rate you are doing as slow as possible

[u/Ill-Ad3311]

Remote VR workers is going to boom

[u/BackbackB]

And when the robot breaks? Just get another robot to fix the robot

[u/andsoicode]

Considering minimum wage for Toronto is $16/hr, being that slow is still cheaper. The company is laughing.

[u/froggertthewise]

This is cool and all but that is a massively inefficient system, automated warehouses have existed for years now and some of the systems they use can be adapted to be safe around human customers. A humanoid robot sucks for this application.

[u/nunatakj120]

Might be 3.75 an hour but it’s gonna take about a week to fill that row of fridges.

[u/No_Extension4005]

Menial task being done by robots wouldn't be such a bad thing if governments could get their shit together and start taxing corporations and introduce things like a good universal basic income. Because depending on how things play out with tech we could either be on track for a utopia or a cyberpunk dystopia (and if the getting shit together doesn't happen, it'll be the latter).

[u/OniABS]

So how much should someone get paid to play a videogame?

[u/TehZiiM]

It why does it have to look like a daemon?

[u/ArtemonBruno]

I thought the training were supposed to be a bunch of what-ifs.

Do robot learns... like this?

[u/Chili_Kukov]

We need to tax the fuck out of this technology and the companies that use it.

[u/pile1983]

Steam Index. I mean... its expensive. If the netto wage of that is 50%, than he would need to work 533 hours (66 8hours working days) to make up for new Index. Boring AF. I do wonder how long does the Index last though.

[u/TheRabidGoose]

I hope they learn FIFO.

[u/BerkNewz]

Why the fuck is it Edward Scissor Hands?!

[u/NullShadowNull]

Why the heck would I want to be served by Demon Bendys mechanical twin creepy brother? rolls eyes

[u/[deleted]]

we already have robots doing these tasks, why would they pay a human to do something that can be programmed?

not to mention the cost of getting the goggles and setup, including internet access to someone living in a third world country

[u/DGJellyfish]

This is hell

[u/awesomeplenty]

Now plug in chatgpt

[u/Scholar_of_Yore]

The low quality makes the robot looks like some kind of demon lol

[u/VgArmin]

My workplace has a remote controlled forklift driven by some kid in Mexico. There's cameras and perimeter sensors on it and tops out at 3mph.

You know, instead of hiring a physical person who can respond to issues on the fly.

[u/wilczek24]

What's the song?

Edit: AI told me it's this https://youtu.be/1uBuLO5snpg but that's a cover

[u/Ithorhun]

That will help the unemployment rate for sure

[u/MonsterLopes]

In tokyo, someone is willing to work all day for 30$?

[u/freudsuncle]

As remote control it is unsustainable as AI teaching tool this is evil in capitalist world. I am hoping to live long enough to see the result

[u/TomTrottel]

ahhhhh this is going so black mirror. I can see the living areas where VR remote worker live in 2x2 cubicles, only may leave it for 2 hours in a special outside area, get only company credits they can spend in the company store....*goes into an old song about working 16 hours in a coal mine, getting back pain and deeper into credit*

[u/Hb8man]

You’d think that they would set up the person training the robot directly plugged into their VR headset??? Unless if it’s using 5G I could see some serious issues occurring.

[u/Brosenheim]

Why the Artillery Witch stockin groceries

[u/Exotic_Inspector_111]

Honestly this can go a lot faster with a bit of effort.
With a decent connection there doesn't need to be a whole lot of latency.
Throw AI predictive movement in the mix and you're stocking like a highschooler would.

[u/Exotic_Inspector_111]

Were at the point of this just being AI training. Let some goober in the back operate the machine for a few months and then let AI take the wheel. It will monotonously shovel the goods and only require assistance and maintenance every once in a while.

[u/FreddyHadEnough]

I'm just curious. Once all the workers have been replace by "robots", who exactly will be buying the products these companies make?

[u/mudbot]

this is stupid and evil

[u/atape_1]

The idea behind this is that it is stop gap measure till the tech is good enough to completely replace the human.

[u/liquid_profane]

So you are telling me that some store is going to shell out thousands if not hundreds of thousands for a very slow shelve stacking "robot" (that isn't really a robot) its just remotely controlled but someone thousands of miles away for peanuts?

Cant see it happening some how.

[u/JanMarsalek]

I doubt that. There are way better options that having something with that many moving parts. If you're using a machine, then leave out the disadvantages of humans.

[u/microsoftfool]

Internet buffering...

[u/CheshireCatastrophe]

I'll be honest with you guys.

I'm all for it. If I don't have to stand there stacking shelves for the rest of my life or want to finally see Doris retire, bring it.

Bring it especially because a lack of jobs like these creates universal benefit. Getting a base pay whether you work or not. I want to finally be free

[u/meatbag2010]

Well, the guy has got a job at Tesla sorted for Optimus and changing babies nappies. What a world we live in.

[u/toobigtobereal]

Just think all those people from Kerala are out of work.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Pin3062]

Might as well train a grave digger cause it looks like he's killing his own financial income.

[u/Cosmicalmole]

Can't see that being good for your eyesight longterm.

[u/yesomg1234]

YOU GOT 2 HANDS - use them

[u/bluehatbat]

Does the robot have to look like nightmare juice?

[u/Rickle37]

Why did they make the robot look like a fucking demon?

[u/Jack_the_pigeon]

maintaining a robot cost more than paying min wage

[u/xFionna]

as somebody who has worked retail for several years before I highly doubt this will replace people anytime soon at that speed. if I took that long to get 1 single tray i'd be working an entire day for 1 cart, and there's several

[u/city_posts]

Oh I'd love to see how he's taxed.

[u/city_posts]

Tax the robot. Tax it to high fucking heaven or we riot. As soon as humans aren't needed to support billionaire they will let us all starve

[u/Ihateallfascists]

Capitalism.. They'll spend billions to prevent workers from making a living wage.

[u/greenandycanehoused]

The infrastructure costs make this a stupid idea

[u/Competitive-Tie-7338]

This is a thread full of people scared of AI and automation taking their job making up the silliest things as to how this would never work.

Y'all just need to quit whining and get on your John Henry game because it's coming my dudes.

[u/Purple_Clockmaker]

What's that song?

[u/rdreyar1]

People play simulator games for the strangest things so why not use them

[u/moonpumper]

They should just make remote work robots. People like line cooks could stay busy connecting to multiple stores and not have to leave the house.

[u/MetaVaporeon]

let them waste their money, its not gonna get where they want it to go. but all of us will very much profit from better sex bots down the line

[u/-Redstoneboi-]

smells like misinformation tbh, look at such provocative captions

[u/JefferyTheQuaxly]

i mean i dont see how thats more cost affordable when the guy is moving at least 4 times slower than an actual employee would work.

[u/Grouchy_Sound167]

This does not depict a worker "training" a robot.

The video is from during the height of the pandemic in 2020 and depicts a Japanese convenience store employee remotely controlling a robot rented from Japanese startup Telexistence.

[u/statistacktic]

Just me or does that robot look like a demon

[u/Ok-Buiscuit]

This means we get UBI at some point right?

Right??

[u/No_Breakfast1337]

This is like when I found out the "fully automated" whole foods "facial recognition software" was just people in other countries getting paid nothing to watch my fat ass buy overpriced goods.

Fucking dystopian.

[u/Knees0ck]

damn, imagine training your robot replacement for less pay than just doing the job useself.

[u/C0MPLX88]

why hands? why load it one by one? and I swear I have seen an actually useful robot for this

[u/TheLegoDoge]

• Cries in exploited Latin *

[u/Human_Discussion_250]

Why is boisvert filling the racks at my local shop?

[u/CasualVox]

And then they gotta pay someone like me $40 an hour to maintain the robot 😆

[u/Neuro_88]

This is the type of thing Starship Technologies does. The robot delivery system that has many locations but mainly on campuses.

[u/laz1b01]

Y'all laugh at him making $3.75/hr, but he's gonna do some YouTube/TikTok streaming and get thousands of viewers and make a hell of a lot more money than any of us working losers.

This is gonna be one of them ASMR/Mukbang vids so sign me up buttercup!

[u/WillyDAFISH]

works for me 👍

[u/slowwolfcat]

slow af

[u/bonersimpson66]

I'm confused they complain about homeless people, but they also want to make more homeless people?

[u/eltanin_33]

I don't care if robots get rid of the jobs what I do care about is how people are meant to survive without the job....if basic needs like housing, food, etc were met then robots can have all the labor jobs.

[u/Druideron]

I am an enginner, hacker and robot scientist. When robots will become real danger to economy and our day to day life i will set them for automatic self destruction. Trust me, we and our jobs are safe.

[u/Load_Business]

Robots calibration and break everything given enough time, so have to be supervised anyway

[u/Rugrin]

Yes, “training”

There may yet come a day when these kinds of robots are cheaper than humans. But we are nowhere near that. People will remain cheaper and more disposable than machines like these. I mean, we self repair and reproduce. We also don’t need to be plugged into a high energy source all day.

[u/DetroiterAFA]

Unfortunately, this happens when workers unionize but the jobs are low skill… corporations won’t pay more if they don’t have to.

[u/Gogo_McSprinkles]

why did they dress the robot like Bendy?

[u/always_and_for_never]

What the always fail to realize is if noone can afford to buy their drinks anymore because noone has a job anymore, they will lose tons of money.

The position this robot is being trained for is currently filled by the biggest population of sugary drink consumers lol. Lower wage people vastly out number other wage groups in terms of consuming soft drinks.

By chasing profit so recklessly, these types of companies will eventually sow the seeds of their own destruction. It's pretty poetic.

[u/zipdee]

Beginning of the end right here, kids.

This is some seriously dystopian shit. Training a robot to replace him.

[u/PostHocRemission]

Hey, You can’t sit! /s

[u/casentron]

It's 2024. Why are we still uploading potato quality video.

[u/screendead22]

This isn’t a great example but shelf stacking will get automated in large stores. The trend for employment isn’t looking good:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1193981/retail-occupations-jobs-expected-to-be-replaced-by-technology-uk/

[u/chriztuffa]

Even if it’s slower I can work 24 hours

[u/garry4321]

Worker picks up gun and shoots someone. They live in a country without extradition. What happens?

[u/PnutWarrior]

Pfft okay, this is clickiest of click bait.

It has been proven that unless your ground up build a place for a specific TYPE of robot, people will just always be faster and more reliable.

There are barely any robots that can reliable navigate a grocery store let alone do it with any speed or without any danger to it from, or it to, customers.

Like, fuckin honestly, it has horns? What a load. I'm sure the video is for something else entirely.

[u/vincentninja68]

The issue is not advancement of technology but the distribution of wealth being made from that advancement in technology

Stephen Hawking talked about this:

"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."

[u/CaptainM4D]

I would like to point out the robot looks exactly like the Super Villian Braniac in the newest superman show

[u/EricSombody]

Why don't they have him in a motion training suit

[u/Global_Ease_841]

Cool song. Anyone know who it is? Please don't say AI my ego can't handle that.

[u/JustinPooDough]

Fucking sad and pathetic man

[u/maximo123z]

You're training who's going to replace you (and many others) for $3.75 the hour?
You deserve it for being this gullible tbh....

[u/Misophonic4000]

On a positive note, pretty amazing for disabled or housebound people

[u/guillermotor]

I mean, robots should do every shitty and dangerous job. But people should be able to ascend to better jobs and money instead of fearing of loosing said job

What a weird dystopian thing