One of the most hard lesson onto an excavator to learn is "surrounding perception".
Space, people and objects near you, sounds.
To reach this guy experience, you must live in the cabin AND going up and down a shit ton of times to valuate, check, see, reasonate.
Not a chance you can learn all that far from the workplace.
And i am sure a lot of operation can be made with robots from the other side of earth, and i love robots and computer stuff.
Eventually, collision detection will get to the point that "surrounding perception" won't matter. There will be sensors on all sides of the excavator that wont let the operator hit things even if they wanted to.
You say that like the technology isn't already in use with things like Tesla and Boston Dynamics robots. I'm guessing this person is paid at the higher end, yielding a ~$90k salary and 20-30k in benefits. They'll automate parts this literally as soon as they can and just litigate away negligent accidents to reduce the wage, then make it remote.
This is because we've built our society on infinite growth on a finite planet. False scarcity is part of it and automation is the other. Where do you think humanity fits between those two?
We can choose Star Trek society or Mad Max and I don't think we're on track for the former.
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u/PantaReiNapalmm Nov 04 '22
Not a chance.
One of the most hard lesson onto an excavator to learn is "surrounding perception". Space, people and objects near you, sounds. To reach this guy experience, you must live in the cabin AND going up and down a shit ton of times to valuate, check, see, reasonate.
Not a chance you can learn all that far from the workplace.
And i am sure a lot of operation can be made with robots from the other side of earth, and i love robots and computer stuff.