crackernator t1_j4wlub5 wrote
Yes, it's scripted. But that script can be taught repeatedly and rapidly to others. And each time the script gets better and more accurate and that can be used to update those bots. Biological entities take much more time to learn. There is nothing special about what we do. There is no magic. Machines evolve much faster and when AI takes over the programming, things will really change, really fast.
PhallicReason t1_j4xxsn5 wrote
It's not about the script, it's about the level of movement, and accuracy the robot can maintain. A different company would be the ones writing AI to run these on a a real construction site.
jseah t1_j4x1x7g wrote
Indeed! Computer vision algorithms to classify the space around them. Self driving car-like algorithm for navigation and pathfinding. RTS game like AI to assign tasks to teams of robots. And suddenly it becomes possible to arrange a work site to be more robot friendly and robots can do half the work... which means 50% go unemployed.
yamangetmemed t1_j4yt2rb wrote
I think you'll find that large robot construction, licensing, and maintenance are not free.
jseah t1_j4yt8ng wrote
Which is fair, robots are not free. But robots might cost less than humans over time, plus tend to have less hidden costs like traffic accidents or epidemics making them unable to work unexpectedly.
Affectionate-Memory4 t1_j4ysly2 wrote
For real though. My robotics team was able to train a driving model to run a little robot off of ultrasonic sensors and an Intel Realsense camera, which is crazy. It ran on a little Ryzen V1000 embedded board, so not much processing power at all in that little 15W CPU.
Once it was trained all we had to do was give it a heading and a point to reach and it would get there with reasonable accuracy. We ended up hard-coding smaller motions due to limited training resources, but for assisting the human driver's inputs it worked great.
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