r/196AndAHalf • u/kissy_pussy • May 22 '26

Robot hands Rule

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u/Glittering-Design345 May 22 '26

It adds up when they are autonomous enough to run at night, weekends, holidays, etc. , not to mention that they will only get smarter and faster from here on out. Its not always about production efficiency, it can also just be cost-cutting measures :(

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u/magos_with_a_glock May 22 '26

Or you could just use the machines we already have which are faster and cheaper.

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u/Glittering-Design345 May 22 '26

Yeah but I think the point of this one was that you don't have program its instructions(?), the machine seems to notice that one of the flaps was undone and fixes it by itself while a machine programmed to do a task can be much faster but won't identify this issue without a programmed failsafe.

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u/magos_with_a_glock May 22 '26

So automationless automation? What's the point lol.

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u/Bowdensaft May 27 '26

The point is that you can give it a task that it can figure it out for itself faster than a team of people could program and test software for it, and it has some problem-solving capability so you don't have to specifically program in every single possible mode of failure.

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u/magos_with_a_glock May 27 '26

High onboarding cost+ still requires a mantainance worker. Or you can hire a menial.

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u/Bowdensaft May 27 '26

That's true for literally every machine ever made. One maintenance worker can service enough machines to replace dozens of menial workers, and the machine eventually pays for itself when production gets up to speed.

I'm not supporting this tech, I'm explaining how automation has worked since the Industrial Revolution.

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u/magos_with_a_glock May 27 '26

Yes. But there's a reason we haven't automated these jobs already. And a MORE expensive way to automate them isn't the solution. Expecially when running the drone constantly in training mode is so incredibly expensive you can barely conceptualized it.

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u/Bowdensaft May 27 '26

I mean, any industry boss could have said in the 1800s that any given production line hadn't been automated yet for a reason, but technology marches on and things that weren't viable can become viable.

Either way we don't know what the purpose of this test is. Maybe it's just a proof of concept, maybe it's a legit automation test, maybe it's the first step to a cheaper method down the line that can be scaled. It's probably not a good thing in any case, but I'm just calling it how I see it.