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Quealdlor t1_j25wod5 wrote

>for centuries or millennia

Pffff.... you'll see that production of robots will double every 2 years. Robot shipments are currently doubling every 2 years. That's 1000x more robots (all kinds) produced in 2042 than in 2022. Of course robots will do stuff instead of us in 40 years. That's for sure. Even Kurzweil was recently asked that question and he answered that robotics will see a lot of development and improvement over the next 10 years and he's correct about that. See Agility Robotics for an example. There are agricultural and harvesting robots being deployed already. Do you know that for example modern ports are full of robots taking care of shipping containers? And robots change and recharge batteries of the wheeled robots.

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CesareGhisa OP t1_j25xxki wrote

Would be great! I am just thinking at my electrician anyway... the amount of smooth and fine actions he performs.. the level of dexterity in new environments.. the many tools he carries.. Its hard for me to believe that in all houses, in all cities, everywhere, where now work daily thousands, millions of people, will be substituted by an army of walking robots drilling walls, filling pipes with wires, and so on... in just few decades.

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freeman_joe t1_j2630r3 wrote

Some people had a hard time to imagine how would average person use personal computers at home.

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CesareGhisa OP t1_j264qbf wrote

True, and I perfectly know. I cant predict the future. But I still find it hard to believe that in 40 years there will be millions/billions of highly skilled robots (not in terms of knowledge, but of physical dexterity) replacing all human jobs. Its knowledge jobs that are going to be taken over in my opinion.

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freeman_joe t1_j265j79 wrote

Automation can lead to really fast build up of millions of robots. We only need to make first that works and is cheap to produce.

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GenoHuman t1_j2akbjg wrote

look at the Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics, it is almost there dexterity wise already.

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CesareGhisa OP t1_j2avi5d wrote

do you see a world populated by millions of atlas kind of robots in the near future?

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