Reminds me of the "if we understand it, it's just a machine, if we don't, that's technology". Nobody calls a bus "technology" anymore, but ML, now that's technology!
Understand your annoyance but "it's changing how we live" is in the raw HTML source tag <title>. It may have been the most convenient text (e.g. maybe default title in RSS reader) to copy paste into the submission form. From browser's view source:
<title>The robotics revolution is here, and it's changing how we live</title>
I agree it should be changed, but to be fair, it is the title of the webpage. Sites often have different HTML titles from the article's "real" title that is shown on the page itself. I'm sure it's for click-baiting, as you indicated.
I’ve recently got a roborock vacuum, and it’s actually been life changing. I have a number of pets, and not having to vacuum 3x a week or so has been incredible. I had a roomba when I was a kid and it sucked (or not I suppose). The roborock has lidar and it’s super meticulous.
On the upside, apparently once it is rooted and dustcloud installed it is apparently even more responsive as it pretty much stores the database on itself.
I use robots in my day job for industrial automation. $12k to 60k, SCARA or 6-axis robot arms, from Fanuc, ABB, Epson, Denso etc.
We call them "robots" and not just "machines" or "actuators" like the rest of the equipment because, in comparison with the rest of the industrial LEGO with which they interact, they are incredibly versatile.
They're not sci-fi "Do what I mean" versatile, no, but if the requirements change (or are likely to change) then they're probably going to be your easiest path to accommodate those changes, without buying new parts. Sure, you can, say, design in a shim pack to precisely set the travel of a pneumatic cylinder (to make one of six degrees of freedom able to be changed), but with a robot you just bolt the fixture down to the concrete at woodworker precision and let the robot programmer (sigh...) accomodate any tolerance you may need to take up.
"If you're like most people, you've never met a robot" is a very odd opener. I have seen a roomba? And ridden in a car with autopilot? And outside the tech bubble, I'd expect that nearly all factory workers have "met" a robot by this point.
If relationships with China go further south, I've been wondering/worrying if that might eventually (and sadly) affect the supply of cheap components to young, developing 'makers', many of whom ultimatately tend to end up in this line of industry after years of tinkering.
I’ve worried about this too, but it is a two way street. China’s industry can’t stop supplying these components to manufacturers without taking a hit. The extra supply that feeds Makers won’t go away unless the production itself goes away. In spite of all their efforts, this is still Capitalism, and there are still willing buyers.
The Chinese government is boneheaded enough to do something like that, definitely. It would of course be a bad idea in the long run as production would simply move.
If the robotics revolution is here, why is productivity growth so low? American factories underwent dramatic automation during the 1950s and 1960s, and productivity growth was very high at that time. Maybe that was the real robotics revolution?
Then why use the word "here"? Your point is that this is something that is still nascent -- maybe we will see results in a few years. It is not "here" yet.
Because people who want to risk a little for some interesting gains should be doing it now, not when it's in the averages. It gets in the averages years after all the purchases, setup, customization and consulting is done.
Then why use the word "here"? Your point is that this is something that is still nascent -- maybe we will see results in a few years. It is not "here" yet.
It was not my point, but I think our definitions of 'here' differ. I don't need to wait until everyone has it to consider it 'here'. I consider it here when I can start doing it.
A few they mention are production systems at fairly high volume. The floor scrubbers from Brain Corp and shelf scanners from Bossa Nova are running in hundreds of Walmart stores, and the delivery robots from Starship are running in dozens of cities.
