Japan Airlines will introduce the robots for trial run at a Tokyo airport amid country’s surge in inbound tourism and worsening labour shortages
You gotta get some of those soccer robots if they’re going to realistically dropkick the shit out of the luggage.
Humanoid robots are as dumb as a bag of hammers. It’s like when the first automobiles looked like carriages because that’s what everyone was used to.
The only practical reason to make a robot look like a person is so you can fuck it. That’s it. Every other task can be performed better by removing human limitations and complexity.
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World is built for humans. In the near future it could be cheaper to use humanoids for some tasks than to rebuild the whole area for industrial robots.
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Humanoids are excellent for tasks that require human interaction.
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In the far future we could have humanoids that can handle multiple different tasks simultaneously, instead of purpose-built robots.
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Humanoids don’t have human limitations. The joints can move inhumanly.
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The reason for their labor shortages is that they make it so hard to immigrate into their country.
Aside from being a circlejerk for the companies competing their bots, I’ve never understood why they use humanoid bots for most tasks. Are they all really that vain to believe the human body, a bipedal body, is the ideal for jobs like this.
In an infrastructure built for bipeds there may be advantages to such a design for flexibility of function. If this is truly a long term monotasker the only real advantage is PR / curb appeal.
