• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 hours ago

    The human form isn’t designed to work in a factory, why would you make your robots have humanoid bodies??

    This is 100% management being scammed.

    • T156@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Or from the other angle, when there are better forms for working in a factory. We don’t make cars giant mechanical humans you sit atop of, why do the same for robots?

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      9 hours ago

      Huh? Factories are literally designed around human workers unless they are already fully automated…

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        8 hours ago

        It took several hundred years to make factories even reasonably safe for humans to work in, and yet still, workplace injuries are extremely common because the human form is simply bad at doing this kind of work. It’s trash.

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          4 hours ago

          All factories with human workers are optimised for human movement as much as possible (5s etc). It benefits the factory.

          It should be pretty obvious why a humanoid robot that can do anything a human can do, could be easy to implement in these factories.

          Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.

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            3 hours ago

            Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.

            That’s the point the other guy was making

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              3 hours ago

              Nope he said factories were not designed around humans which is factually incorrect.

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                3 hours ago

                He said humans are not designed for factories, not the other way around. That’s not the same thing. Factories have been designed to take into account our physical shortcomings, but it’s obviously not perfect and industrial accidents are still a thing.