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The biggest problem with robots for a long time has been the brain, but now with LLMs, and other things, being good enough to fully control robots, even if using multiple specialized AIs, the tendency is that more and more will be invested in this direction.
Yes the first generations of robots might be slow and have problems, but that will be used to train the newer AIs for both embodied tasks and also for fully in-computer based tasks, meaning that by the time they can finally be produced cheaply and in mass they will be ready for many jobs.
This may also soon lead to less humanoid designs, like robots with multiple arms and no legs, leading to both generalist and specialized robots that can work very fast to take all manual labor jobs with ease in decades or less. Hopefully the people in the capitalist countries can manage to organize to work for changing the system into one where the people can benefit from the full automation that is to come.
The new average of global robot density in the manufacturing industry surged to 141 robots per 10,000 employees – more than double the number six years ago.
The following is a very basic calculation with many assumptions, of course, but if it continues doubling in six years as stated that would be less than 40 years for full automation. And that's before taking into account more focus on making robots as they get better or robots getting better to the point they can make more robots faster and cheaper by themselves.
the way machine learning is progressing we might see Asimov style robots within our lifetime :)
Robot: "A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
US Army: uploads the new, more american, definition of a human
Robot:
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On a serious note, humanoid robots have potential to be very versatile in the range of tasks they can accomplish. With the rate of advancements we're seeing in AI tech, it's entirely plausible that such robots could replace vast majority of factory work for example.
There is it, their response to aging population. I'm very excited to see how it will turn out.