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    Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says
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    Physical AI robots will automate ‘large sections’ of factory work in the next decade, Arm CEO says

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    1. Gari_305 on

      From the article 

      AI-powered humanoid robots could take over large sections of factory work within the next five to 10 years, transforming the manufacturing industry, predicts Arm CEO Rene Haas

      One of the key forces pushing humanoid robots into factories is their advantage over the robotic arms and other automation machinery in use today, Haas said. Traditional factory robots are purpose-built machines designed for a single task, with both hardware and software optimized for that specific function. General purpose humanoid robots by contrast, combined with increasingly sophisticated “physical AI” that helps navigate the real world, will be able to take on different jobs on the fly with quick modifications to their instructions.

      “I think in the next five years, you’re going to see large sections of factory work replaced by robots—and part of the reason for that is that these physical AI robots can be reprogrammed into different tasks,” Haas said at Fortune Brainstorm AI in San Francisco on Monday.

    3. Harbinger2001 on

      China already has automated large sections of their manufacturing. They are a good decade ahead of the US in this.

    4. Girion47 on

      BS. There are so many things that go wrong with setup and parts and wear, that i dont see a robot being able to work around.

    5. TylerBourbon on

      And once they build their clanker workers, they’ll have clankers building clankers. And those of us that aren’t rich? We’ll just have to get busy dying to decrease the surplus population.

    6. Cheapskate-DM on

      Horseshit. Humanoid robots are vastly less efficient than purpose built machines, and those pay for themselves very quickly to offset their cost and specificity. Better to whole-ass one thing than half-ass your entire production chain.

    8. wizzard419 on

      This, at least from places like Amazon, has been in the making for decades. The deep ergonomic study, looking at ways to reduce unnecessary movements led to a focus on changing warehouses to have the shelves come to workers, so having it become the picker now becomes replaced by a bot isn’t that unrealistic.

    11. Zytheran on

      Bullshit. These humanoid robots can’t even unpack a grocery bag. You can’t even walk up to one , give it a bag of nails and a hammer and ask it to fix a broken pallet you point to. Couldn’t even use a broom to sweep up and then use a brush and pan to transfer to a waste bin. Pick up a hose and clean a factory floor, mopping it down? Nope. The vast bulk of simple tasks the average human can do without thinking, these piles of over-hyped shit have no chance of succeeding at.

      Useful general purpose robots are a long way off. You really have to question when people like Haas make these sort of statements and have zero expertise with actual physical robotics and appear to think it’s just about software or chips? But then considering his previous positions in sales and marketing I guess that is his job, so congratulations?

    12. InsaneComicBooker on

      I worked 8 years in a factory with computer operated automated robotic arms doing majority of work.

      This thing is dumber than a shithouse rat. I do not think we have anything to fear from AI.

    13. suboptimus_maximus on

      Bro, large sections of factory work have already been automated for the last three hundred years. Like when was the last time you saw someone using a spinning wheel?

      There is no ****ing way the CEO of a semiconductor design company doesn’t know how highly automated semiconductor manufacturing is, along with a lot of other factory work.

    14. MaxerSaucer on

      It’s just like that move I read about on an AI summary.

      We don’t know who will strike first, us or them. But we do know it would have been us who scorched the sky. Except we were all way too dumb by then to have any idea what that would involve.