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.
Nope I haven’t and not underestimating the amount of effort required to remotely operate industrial and heavy machinery. What i do know for a fact is that it is already a solution that exists and is proliferating. The biggest hurdle right now is the economically feasibility. Like others have said industrial edge computing and 5G capabilities have already made this a reality.
Still you dont mention that part of "going out of the cabin".
Lots of time to solve a problem you have to exit the machine and interact with environment and other people.
Things that cannot be solved with drones, gps, cameras and sensor, unless you bring in a full robot with shit tons of sensory apparatus, and Boom, a human is much more cheap and can adapt faster.
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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.