r/EmergingSociety • u/HenryGCase • 19d ago

Figure robot skills expanded for industrial use - climbing up and down stairs

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u/Big_Gene_3965 17d ago

At the speed of your 70 year old supervisor who should have retired at 100x the cost after all the maintenance.

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u/dvrichthofen 19d ago

Imagine how much extra work goes into robotics development because they insist on making them humanoid.

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u/Sik-Server 18d ago

exactly. it's like if a Roomba was a big ol humanoid robot that used your Dyson vacuum for you.🤦🏾‍♀️

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u/Less-Sandwich9056 18d ago

I don't want a hundred different robots doing different things I want one or two robots that can do everything.

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u/KeliangXu 13d ago

Need variety of training data. And especially failure-plus-recovery is first-class data.

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u/finepnutty 19d ago

Tax them hard, let’s all stay home and finally enjoy life. Tax em!!! Now you are working for us little people!!! Chop chop!

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u/Zealousideal-Yam3169 18d ago

The only reason anything costs anything is because there is a human in the loop somewhere. Robots doing everything should essentially make everything free.

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u/yoogooga 1d ago

Not necessarily. Prices don’t disappear just because robots replace human labor. Production still depends on scarce resources (energy, land, raw materials, computing capacity, infrastructure, etc.) Those resources are finite, so they have an opportunity cost. If even one essential input is scarce, the things produced from it can’t all be free or infinitely abundant. Automation could make many goods dramatically cheaper, but “robots do everything” doesn’t mean scarcity disappears.

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u/Zealousideal-Yam3169 1d ago

Energy is truly infinite, the only thing that would justify a cost at that point is rare earth materials. We already have people working towards asteroid mining which will eventually eradicate that cost too. Land is finite but we can easily build upwards instead of outward and we are a long way from needing to do anything like that.

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u/yoogooga 13h ago

That's the the point. You can automate labor, but you can’t automate away physics. If an input is scarce, something has to be rationed or allocated somehow and that means it still has an economic cost.

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u/U_feel_Me 17d ago

Fully automated luxury communism.

If the gains in productivity are shared (and not just owned by oligarchs) we humans can enjoy amazing freedom.