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Agility Robotics has opened a factory in Oregon to build 10,000 of its 'Digit' humanoid robots a year. (spectrum.ieee.org)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I always find it a bit inefficent to build humanoid robots to replace humans at a task. They're very complex and slow. Why not spend the money and rethink the task ie. warehousing already has been automated as well as a lot of things in manufacturing.

Don't get me wrong this is very cool to see but I can't think of many use cases for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I agree. It seems like a lack of creativity trying to solve the problem of a "general purpose" robot.

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