Very skeptical of humanoid robots beyond being a toy.
I agree with you there. The cost to keep them running will never be cheaper than just paying someone to do the work. Every factory I have ever worked in had automated processes that sat unused and collecting dust in some corner because the accountant said it was cheaper to pay someone to do that task all day than to maintain the process.
It depends a lot on the type of factory. For example, for the last couple decades semiconductor manufacturing is fully automated except for maintenance (including installation here) and contingencies when maintenance is happening (people moving wafers around with carts when the automated handling system is down). Part of this is certainly that the advanced processes can’t be done by humans anymore, due to precision, scale, contamination, and safety reasons.
BUT the humanoid robots would be useless.
Whenever the West has some new tech
grift“innovation,” the narrative is always “the companies behind it aren’t profitable now, but don’t worry they’ll start churning a profit any day now!”YOU VILL SPEND MONEY SUBSIDIZING SOMETHING THAT ONLY BILLIONAIRE 1 PERCENTERS AND MEGACORPS WILL EVER BE ABLE TO USE.
AND. YOU. VILL. BE. HAPPY.
China is so bad at making money from products. It is known.
Elon though?! Selling you a guy in a robot costume?!?!? Gorillion dollar market cap! We will have to go to that gold asteroid to get all the gold to give it to Elon cuz he will have earned all of it!
?? I’m not gonna fuck a robot that’s been in the trash!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
profits
If only there were an economic system where stuff could be done without regard for profitability
