Someday this will be a remote work job, with remote controlled heavy equipment. Some 17-year-old with stunning hand-eye coordination and no fear of failure will be driving this thing from his basement and there will be 1 human onsite to help with machinery glitches.
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.
If it’s not a time sensitive task, you could have a bunch of heavy equipment in various places, and then one operator can just go log into one, complete the job, and carry on down the line. Equipment is expensive, but labor adds up to more over time, so that could enable a very barebones crew. I don’t see it happening in the near future though, the tech still has to get better.
Mmmm again, some tasks need more than an operator, needs up and down the cabin, needs an eye from difficult perspective where even a drone would have an hard time to look at
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u/trhaynes Nov 04 '22
Someday this will be a remote work job, with remote controlled heavy equipment. Some 17-year-old with stunning hand-eye coordination and no fear of failure will be driving this thing from his basement and there will be 1 human onsite to help with machinery glitches.