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Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It took several hundred years to make factories even reasonably safe for humans to work in, and yet still, workplace injuries are extremely common because the human form is simply bad at doing this kind of work. It's trash.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    All factories with human workers are optimised for human movement as much as possible (5s etc). It benefits the factory.

    It should be pretty obvious why a humanoid robot that can do anything a human can do, could be easy to implement in these factories.

    Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Although I would think it easier to just redesign the factory to operate without humans, than to design a humanoid robot to replace the humans.

    That's the point the other guy was making

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Nope he said factories were not designed around humans which is factually incorrect.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    He said humans are not designed for factories, not the other way around. That's not the same thing. Factories have been designed to take into account our physical shortcomings, but it's obviously not perfect and industrial accidents are still a thing.

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