[joe_the_user]

Uh, what evidence do you have of this "wide scale robotic deployment"? More humanoid robots have been announced lately but that is all I know of.

Humanoid robots have many, many challenges to deployment. Especially, creating a machine that people can safely operate near is extremely challenging. The amount of intelligence person uses to not bump another person is very under rated.

[robinhoode]

It's a hypothetical deployment but it's reasonable to expect. These robots will be very valuable, and everyone will want one. It's not going to become a housemaid in a few years. But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly. Moravec's paradox is still in play, but advancement in AI chips will slowly overcome it.

[umeshunni]

> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

Worth calling out that Hyundai is a major investor in Boston Dynamics.

FTA: This journey will start with Hyundai—in addition to investing in us, the Hyundai team is building the next generation of automotive manufacturing capabilities, and it will serve as a perfect testing ground for new Atlas applications.

[delfinom]

They own 80% of BD. Softbank owns the remaining 20%

[throwaway2037]

Wiki says it is 100% owned by Hyandai.

    > Boston Dynamics has been owned by the Hyundai Motor Group since December 2020, but having only completed the acquisition in June 2021.

[joe_the_user]

But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

I believe robots are currently making car parts in abundance. The robots usually are like a box with a hydraulic arm or something equivalent.

The specially and especially hard part of humanoid robots is justifying the cost and complexity of the construction by having them by "walk-on replacements" for humans and so they have failed entirely at being that.

[Intralexical]

> But will they be making car parts? Almost certainly.

What can humanoid robots making car parts do, that the already-existing and already widely deployed robots making car parts can't?

[ben_w]

Without knowing the specifics, that would be whichever things prevented Tesla from being run as a lights-out factory already.

[wepple]

Re-tool an entire factory overnight in response to a change in design of the car, or in fact to produce airplanes instead

[ok_dad]

I don’t think you understand how hard it is to retool and rearrange a factory.

[wepple]

I’m saying if you have a collection of humanoids and general purpose tooling, you can adapt much faster.

I don’t literally mean retool a conventional production line in one night

[ok_dad]

So basically just robots with tools? It might work.