In 5-10 years those tasks may be done by humanoid robots. Replacing cleaners with robots is already here. In many supermarkets and warehouses robots wet and dry clean the floors. A task that would take humans hours to do.
We have heard about humanoid robots for nearly 20 years from people like Boston Dynamics, and they still cant do the most basic tasks and cost millions.
The only robots available today can barely bring a glass of water and they cost crazy amounts of thousands of dollars.
> Replacing cleaners with robots is already here. In many supermarkets and warehouses robots wet and dry clean the floors.
What do you think would happen to a hospital that only cleaned the floors ?
There are far more important places that need cleaning besides floors.
The shift to robotic cleaning is only accelerating and eventually all general cleaning personnel will be replaced by robots.
Hospitals need thorough cleaning yes and currently the quality varies greatly depending on who does the cleaning. If the cleaners have low morale and lack of motivation for whatever personal reason they do a crappy job. A robot doesn't have personal issues. The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
Take the 1x neo humanoid. It's lacking in autonomy only because the VLA model is still quite primitive. Now imagine what similar robots could do in 10 years if the AI side is fully developed.
Also the pricing is a non issue. A $50000 robot that can work for 5 years is a much better investment than paying a human.
> The shift to robotic cleaning is only accelerating and
Very easy to accelerate when you start with a small number.
> eventually all general cleaning personnel will be replaced by robots.
NO it wont.
Nobody will be able to afford robots because they will not be a replacement.
> Hospitals need thorough cleaning yes and currently the quality varies greatly depending on who does the cleaning. If the cleaners have low morale and lack of motivation for whatever personal reason they do a crappy job. A robot doesn't have personal issues. The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
A robot has FAR bigger problems, namely they cant actually do the job because of mechanical limitations and they cost too much.
> The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
Thats right stop bullshitting.
It doesnt count until a working example is shown and available. Robots can barely walk up stairs and you want to pretend they can do everything.
Its fine to criticize humans and point out their mistakes and weaknesses, but its not honest to downplay robotic cleaner negatives so they are effecitely nothing.
> Also the pricing is a non issue. A $50000 robot that can work for 5 years is a much better investment than paying a human.
A $50K robot can barely carry a glass of water.
Stop pretending robots are comparable to humans. Boston Dynamics mule type robots can barely run and cost millions EACH.
True - but it doesn't need to be a humanoid robot - there was a great video of a person that built a 'picker' - essentially a crane in their bedroom that could tidy for them. Why make it look like a human, when better and cheaper to focus on solving the problem?
I never introduced the requirement that the cleaning robot needed to be human like, the parent post mentioned that. Just shows how little thought had gone into robot side that they introduced unnecessary handicaps that only increase cost and engineering challenges.
Your idea of a ceiling is broken because most buildings are not ready for that. This idea only adds cost.
How many hospitals would actually be ready to be modified to support a track system, because from what ive seen most rooms are not design for such a clearance and open system. What happens if a room has a mess somewhere but the tracks to access the place are closed because doctors are busy underneath ?
Maybe its me, but i dont want a robot that may or may not leak mess over other sick patients. Seems like an unnecessary contamination with serious consequences, because today cleaners dont transport toilet mess over the beds of many patients as they travel from toilet duty to another place.
Your solution isnt saving money its simply requires a expensive investment in both new unproven machines, requiring a new skill of expensive installers along with serious building modifications.
To save a few dollars are you requiring hospitals to spend tens of millions with a payback of hundreds if not longer years.
The Dyson is convenient yes. It's absolute shit for deep cleaning. The Dyson is good for daily light cleaning. But for a proper clean you still need a corded vacuum.
We have a Miele C3 and a Dyson V8 at home. The Miele cost twice as little as the Dyson and performs twice as much in actual cleaning power, filtration etc. Both machines have great durability and have worked flawlessly for years. If I had to choose only one of them I'd get the C3 over the Dyson without a hesitation.
I converted to an iphone 13 mini (from the S24 Ultra) after being on Android since the release of the HTC Desire in 2010. I used to install custom roms and tweak everything on all of my Android phones which actually lead me to the iphone because I realized I wanted a phone without all the OE clutter and Google crap. The only clutter on the iphone is icloud which stays out of the way and doesn't annoy me with subscription messages. Also I don't have time to fuck around with modifying my phone. I just want everything to work without user intervention.
"No one forces you..." is an interesting line to go down in the comments of an article that focuses on using messaging apps to deliver exploits to a cellphone. It's pretty malware adjacent. Isn't that sort of thing how Jamal Khashoggi and his friends, family, and coworkers were hacked before his murder/execution?
Uhh, what? Clearly nobody is arguing that "arbitrary remote execution is good." Apple could easily satisfy everyone by simply allowing users to unlock their own bootloader.
How would that help anyone? The unlocked bootloader on the Apple Silicon Macbooks still hasn’t resulted in a truly viable alternative to macOS. The iPhone is much, much harder. And why would carriers trust the result?
You’re missing the point. Hackers (in the tinkerer sense) just want to program their own devices, with full access to the capabilities of the underlying hardware. Apple could obviously allow that if they wanted to, in a convenient way that doesn’t increase the attack surface for malware.
Nginx hasnt had a security advisory that affects a basic "share a static folder with http 1.0" setup in like a decade+. People always overstate "security implications."
And yes, that's why we don't need to act like they're somehow important. They are not. They are not the Internet. They don't even contribute toward the "useful" part of the Internet.
These are not sites where people "find essential information, build community, and weigh in on public discourse." They're not some classical forum where the adults hold important debates. These are sites that present a highly distorted view of reality to each individual so they can keep them engaged to feed them more propaganda. That and gambling/porn.
Torrents. Got the leaked GTA6 videos by torrenting and they're still easily available on public trackers. Don't see why projects like these couldn't be distributed similarly if shit hits the fan.
It's pretty cool that someone finally replicated the turbo boost jump function that K.I.T.T. had. Imagine having the boosters to avoid head on collision at 100km/h.
100kmh+100kmh does not equal the energy of a 200kmh collision. If such a collision avoidance system existed both cars would use side thrusters to avoid each other.
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