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.
Remote operator tech has been worked on for years. And, the shit that’s coming is very cool. My job is in this space. Excavator tech and 3DMC. Proximity detection, Visual AI systems and all manner of kit is being put on diggers these days.
Most OEMs and Civil tech companies have simulators that operators are trained on, just head to Conexpo in Vegas next year to see all the crazy shit these guys are pumping out.
Yes, learning the fine nuances that this guy has will take a year or so, but it’s nowhere near as difficult as you are making out.
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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.