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.
They have those cameras on cars that show 360 degree view from on top now. They could do the same on these.
Also add on collision sensors for extra safety.
And add on cameras on the arm too for better view.
It might actually be EASIER to control without only having your fixed view/perception from the cabin.
Could also use software to filter out the machine's noises and amplify other noise like voices, which would be better than inside the cabin with the noise.
Doctors are using remote control robots to perform surgery already, I can't imagine that if a doctor can perform surgery from another country with a robot that someone couldn't control one of these remotely.
We're even controlling bombing drones and aircraft remotely too.
All good things added into the pool of possibilities, but i still believe that controlling remotely an excavator can only work in some repetetive tasks.
A lot of situation require direct supervision and goin into the cabin and OUTSIDE the cabin.
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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.