Christian Hubicki

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023 podcast

There are multiple companies popping up seemingly almost every day that for some reason there's an intended market for humanoid robots and factories.

Now, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I heard that, but it seems like people are really investing a lot of money.

Because they want to put robots with a human form factor to do human form factor tasks.

So that way you are in a factory where things are semi-controlled, but you're not bolted to the wall.

Or you don't have to roll along the floor.

People have done live demos where a humanoid would go and pick up a box and go put down a box somewhere else.

Basically sort of like doing this box stacking task.

And they did it live in front of a major industry conference.

And this is a great test for how close we are.

And they had multiple robots running around.

It was a very impressive demo.

But occasionally, the robot would just fail.

Sometimes the robot would just collapse out of nowhere.

It would just onto the floor.

And people will clip this and put this on YouTube and they would say – and people say, hey, look, the robot worked for five minutes and gave up on life as a metaphor for humanity, I guess, right?

But when they tallied it all up, it was like 99% reliable, which –

That sounds good.

I would take that as an academic, 99%.

I'm not 99% reliable.

But I bet those, Bob, if you had to pick up hundreds of boxes a day, my guess would be one out of 100 of those, you wouldn't collapse on the floor and die.

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