Redditing-Dutchman t1_j4xbe7h wrote
Reply to comment by seamustheseagull in Watch Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid work at a 'construction site' - The Robot Report by Gari_305
It's pretty funny how the appearance of the robot has impact on if people are afraid or not.
A lot of construction is already automated in factory halls. Walls roll from the factory floor with isolation, cladding and windows already on it. Putting rows on bricks on prefab elements is being automated for a long time already. But nobody really cares about that.
Lesdeth t1_j4y3qxn wrote
Because those factories can't get up and murder people.
Ulyks t1_j54pxys wrote
Oh they murder people all the time :
"Worker at Volkswagen plant killed in robot accident": https://www.ft.com/content/0c8034a6-200f-11e5-aa5a-398b2169cf79
https://www.thecallahanlawfirm.com/videos/workers-death-by-robot-elicits-proposed-7000-fine/
But you're right, they can't get up and go on a killing spree.
seamustheseagull t1_j4zwfsy wrote
Sure. But somebody still has to put the prefab stuff in place, account for errors and misalignments, to build changes that haven't been done in the prefab stage.
People care about automation often only when it affects them. Factory workers being automated out, happened 50 years ago in reality, and there was a lot of noise at the time.
But work which has always required people onsite, using intelligence - doing work which couldn't fit a strict template - is a new departure for automation that's going to cause a lot of concern for the people in that work now.
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