I genuinely do not understand the point of "humanoid" robots.
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I genuinely do not understand the point of "humanoid" robots. If there's a task you need to automate, surely the best approach is to change the task to fit cheap robots, not to build expensive error-prone human-like machines?
The examples in this latest article make no sense.
Handling cargo containers: The whole point of containers is to make it easier for machines to handle them without human limbs.
Ground support equipment: surely wheels would be more useful than legs?
Even the example of cleaning cabins: isn't that basically a glorified roomba?What am I missing?
Japan Airlines trials humanoid robots as ground handlers
These robots may in future help clean cabins and operate ground support equipment.
BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
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I genuinely do not understand the point of "humanoid" robots. If there's a task you need to automate, surely the best approach is to change the task to fit cheap robots, not to build expensive error-prone human-like machines?
The examples in this latest article make no sense.
Handling cargo containers: The whole point of containers is to make it easier for machines to handle them without human limbs.
Ground support equipment: surely wheels would be more useful than legs?
Even the example of cleaning cabins: isn't that basically a glorified roomba?What am I missing?
Japan Airlines trials humanoid robots as ground handlers
These robots may in future help clean cabins and operate ground support equipment.
BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
@LonM If the critic is right, then the billions poured into humanoid robots might just be a massive bet that our entire world-from shipping ports to airplane cabins-is stubbornly designed for human bodies, making it cheaper to copy the human than redesign the world.
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