Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines: Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI.
This expands the range of ‘Work From Home’ to include physical labor. Humanoid robots aren’t far off the point (2030s?) where they can do most unskilled labor. With telepresence, they can take those jobs sooner.
This also brings something else closer. The looming crisis over what our governing economic model will be when human labor can no longer compete for wages with AI & robots.
GnarlyNarwhalNoms on
Welp, we’re boned. When you can outsource low-skill in-person labor, that’s kinda it for people working those jobs in higher-COL countries, isn’t it?
Marples3 on
Technology will save us from ourselves one of these days!
Teauxny on
Is the robot programmed to chase after the teens when they run out the door with a 12 pack of beer?
kitilvos on
So Japan doesn’t actually have a problem with foreigners, as long as they keep their filthy real life bodies away. Of all the dystopian sci-fis I didn’t think that Surrogates was going to be the one we’ll live in.
phiiota on
Don’t complain on higher Inflation if you’re against technology advancements
Naus1987 on
I would easily spend 20-50k on a robot that I could control to do house and yard work.
Imagine power wash simulator but it’s a literal physical house. My house! Clean and work and not stress my back. I would kill for a robot like that!
daveashaw on
Japan has a labor shortage, so this may be as bonkers as it seems.
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This expands the range of ‘Work From Home’ to include physical labor. Humanoid robots aren’t far off the point (2030s?) where they can do most unskilled labor. With telepresence, they can take those jobs sooner.
This also brings something else closer. The looming crisis over what our governing economic model will be when human labor can no longer compete for wages with AI & robots.
Welp, we’re boned. When you can outsource low-skill in-person labor, that’s kinda it for people working those jobs in higher-COL countries, isn’t it?
Technology will save us from ourselves one of these days!
Is the robot programmed to chase after the teens when they run out the door with a 12 pack of beer?
So Japan doesn’t actually have a problem with foreigners, as long as they keep their filthy real life bodies away. Of all the dystopian sci-fis I didn’t think that Surrogates was going to be the one we’ll live in.
Don’t complain on higher Inflation if you’re against technology advancements
I would easily spend 20-50k on a robot that I could control to do house and yard work.
Imagine power wash simulator but it’s a literal physical house. My house! Clean and work and not stress my back. I would kill for a robot like that!
Japan has a labor shortage, so this may be as bonkers as it seems.