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And yet we have them sooner.


Guess I need to pay more attention to the humanoid robots around me, and less attention to the fact that hotels offer less housekeeping services, restaurants offer smaller menus and less wait service, plumbers and electricians and other tradespeople have longer lead times…things that tend to happen when demand for work is increasing faster than supply of labor to perform the work.


Step one is telepresence for toil, allowing long distance labor arbitrage:

https://cybernews.com/ai-news/watney-robots-fold-your-laundr...

Step zero is purpose built robots, since the human form isn't necessary for most repetitive tasks:

https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/operations/amazon-robotics-...

What I was referring to though is that the Boston Dynamics dogs and Sony spaceman efforts of a decade ago have iterated faster than thought when those predictions were made:

https://cybernews.com/science/humanoid-robot-dance/

But here's an example where it's coming together, and this was the specific robot I had in mind when I said "they're here":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3J250fr_V4




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