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Iffykindofguy t1_j6x09sl wrote

Its far from useless on blue-collar jobs. It will start out as an aid on those jobs like any other. Already see it in a lot of city infrastructure jobs. My town has an app that you (a city worker, not a random) can take and place your phone on a bridge and based off the vibrations (and a few other variables taken from video footage you get also with the phone after) it can tell you where the bridge is most likely to need repairs. They can unload trucks with robots now, something that a few years ago I watched a ted talk on how that would be impossible unless everything in the truck was uniform or prepackaged a certain way that made the loading so inefficient the unloading benefits were all lost. Theyre coming for all jobs.

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Economy_Variation365 t1_j6xqic8 wrote

I saw a vid of a robot unloading boxes at Amazon, but the boxes were neatly stacked in the truck and all the same size. Do you have a link to robots unloading in a more realistic scenario?

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Iffykindofguy t1_j6xr2um wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-IwGbEIU08 this is a commercial so clearly its hyped up a bit but Im too lazy to find another example. Ive seen a system like this working, in person.

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Economy_Variation365 t1_j6xxdi2 wrote

Thanks, was the robot you saw working on the job? Or was it a demo?

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Iffykindofguy t1_j6xxswa wrote

I work in production so we were filming a demo but the only thing that was set up was the processor, the trucks we worked on were actually just normal trucks that the facility got every day. Didnt work perfectly but that was mostly in the install process, once it was up it was churning.

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Borrowedshorts t1_j6y47g2 wrote

Construction jobs are some of the first use cases I've seen for drones in industry.

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Iffykindofguy t1_j6y5tth wrote

I agree, youll see mechanical helpers on site within the next decade

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Smellz_Of_Elderberry t1_j70it07 wrote

Blue will be last to go, tho. Simply due to manufacturing constraints.

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