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by simondotau 721 days ago
The transition to documented humanoid robots might take less than a decade.
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Only if they are cheaper than a human. Which seems unlikely, for this kind of work.
Given time, what seems unlikely today will eventually be inevitable.

With sufficient design iteration and manufacturing scale, there's no reason why a humanoid robot couldn't be cheaper to manufacture than a compact car. That's competitive with a single year of unskilled human labour — and that's before you account for the robot working 7 days a week, 18+ hours a day, for many years. No messing around with undocumented workers, no risk of unionising, no sexual harassment accusations, no training costs (after training the first robot), no worker injuries resulting in expensive litigation.