> These robots will be everywhere in twenty years.
Doing what? What can a generalist robot do that a task specific robot can't do better, faster, and cheaper?
I'll be happy to be wrong- they're really neat- but I spent 7 years in the Operations tech division at Amazon, working in warehouses especially, and I don't see any need for these robots vs alternative options.
> What can a generalist robot do that a task specific robot can't do better, faster, and cheaper?
Nothing. And everything.
Nothing, because no matter what task the generalist robot is assigned to, it'll always be theoretically possible to design a custom-built specialist robot that's better at that one task.
Everything, because no matter how much better your sock-drawer-organizing robot is at organizing socks, it'll never be able fold my clothes or make my bed or clean my windows like the generalist robot can. I'm not going to purchase thousands of different robots for thousands of different tasks when I can just buy one that will do all of them.
Doing what? What can a generalist robot do that a task specific robot can't do better, faster, and cheaper?
I'll be happy to be wrong- they're really neat- but I spent 7 years in the Operations tech division at Amazon, working in warehouses especially, and I don't see any need for these robots vs alternative options.