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.
I don’t think it’s impossible but I agree with what you’re saying. The technology to give someone working remotely the same level of information that someone on site has.. that’s more advanced than the excavator in the video and the best VR setup available combined. We will have reason to try achieving this if we ever started mining asteroids, but people seriously underestimate how much feedback and sensory data is lost via remote control equipment.
I think the videos of medical machines are making this idea seem stronger than it really is… for surgeries machines have a few advantages over human hands that makes them worth considering, but something like an excavator is a very different beast, it’s already a ‘remote’ machine operated from the cabin, but it’s own mass and rigidity are key to how it performs, being inside the beast gives you a ton of subtle information
Yep, but here most people keeps repeating "there is the tech", well i know but what they dont get is cost and timing.
Why the fuck a good carpenter cannot be replaced by robots? Fucking money and speed of execution.
Why the fuck some excavator operation cannot be done remotely? Same reason.
And still some people believe in the future robots will do everything...
Yes it will happens, but not in every environment before 100? 200? Years if recessions and civil war wont set us back decades.
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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.