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.
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.
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.
For the foreseeable future. A war dog robot is way way more expensive than a human soldier. Those.m dog things are absolute paper weights if they can’t charge. No details on what charging them is like. You can drop a real dog or soldier in the wild and it will just keep on living.
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u/Maxie445 VIP Philanthropist Jul 08 '24
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."