this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2024
531 points (96.7% liked)

Technology

59271 readers
3462 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
531
Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance” (spectrum.ieee.org)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
216 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

...replacing the previously hydraulic version.

Insert obligatory welcome statement here.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Exactly. In a factory you can create an automated line that runs as long as you need. Or you can spend 1.5-2x that and get an automated worker that can work any of the lines you already have.

Also a lot of tasks that take one person would take several robots. Modify and inspect part-pack part-move pack to pallet for example