No More Surprises | Boston Dynamics 

"Cave Johnson Here.... "😂

I didn't....... But now you mention it, I can't UNHEAR it. :D

​@@Reman1975Ik! Lol

When life gives you lemons? Don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! GET MAD! 'I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these?' Demand to see life's manager!

The start of Portal 2

factories are full of networked sensors, no need to walk around

The same people that monitor reports from spot? Spot is only useful when its sensors are really expensive. Remember spot itself is like 75k+ So if you can just buy more stationary sensors for less thats the right call. Its a simple math problem. But yes. In the small number of cases when spot would save you money its useful.

@@RasakBlood people don't monitor sensors walking around, that was 70 years ago.

@@RasakBlood Look up the cost of industrial grade sensors. You will be surprised. Now add the installation wiring, trades and monitoring. $ 75,000 is cheap. You don't need be a large factory or industrial site.

@@raguaviva look up "situational awareness"

Wouldn't have been out of character in all honesty!

I can't wait for them to put the Thom Yorke robot replica on the market, I would buy it immediately, but the version with the adjusted eye

One million percent

came to post this

No alarms?

And no surprises?

Please

I literally clicked cus it thought there was a Radiohead reference

JoJo reference

Shouldn't be to exited This is just the beginning of what robots can do in the future

Aka, "I, for one, welcome our robot overlords"

Unlike Tesla and spacex? Alright

@@FromFame they are a prime example of “other companies” Do you really trust a guy who was disowned by his own family, said doing ketamine is good for investors, and posts nazi conspiracy theories on a site he sunk?

@@FromFame ESPECIALLY unlike Tesla and SpaceX

If you had a job where your bosses bought one of these, you'd probably not be needed any more and have to apply for a job at McDonalds instead! 🤔

@@RobertForslundNo matter how many machines you add, there will always be needed someone to maintain them, and probably work alongside them anyway

@@pochou8261 ok

You would quickly be out of that job mate. Think further.

@@pochou8261 And that number will always be smaller. So i dont see your point.

I'm pregnant

​@@nomusicrc🤣

​@nomusicrc Me too and I'm a man

@@e.v.k.3632 me too it's small but I'm a man lol

Even in Thailand?

No... our job will be running the hamster wheels we use to power the new world.

Would be nice There are already a lot of robots everywhere

This will actually cause hundreds of job loss so yes. Not like you could work in industry anyway weeb.

This will actually cause hundreds of job loss so yes. Not like you could work in industry anyway weeb.

⁠@@officebear4637 way to take a funny South Park reference personally 😅

@@officebear4637 AyTUKERDERRRR!!!!!!

Ironic that you use that South Park reference in cases where it actually does apply.

Would love to see a factory where robots are built

The same thing was once true of cars, cell phones, computers, VCRs, cameras, etc. Spot could be $10k or less if they build them at a similar scale to cars or iPhones, in huge factories to meet enormous demand. There is no material in Spot that is expensive. The cost is all about labor and production efficiency. If the market gets huge and the factory big and efficient enough, and with competition, the cost will come way down, probably to a few thousand bucks. This will happen in the coming decades. But now it's expensive because of the "chicken or egg" problem: it's expensive because the market is small so they make them in small production lines; and the market is small because the robot doesn't do much and it's too expensive. As the capability expands, more customers will buy them, expanding investment and factory size, bringing in more competition, driving down costs, etc.

finally

Surely not. The base cost of this Spot robot is $75k, figure this one might be $125k with the addl sensors and equipment. It can monitor hundreds of gauges, status lights, switches, and sounds. The cost to wire fixed cameras on each gauge or panel and the networking involved would easily match this. This doesn't take into consideration the fact that you'd now have fixed cameras mounted in odd positions all over the facility, and now you'll need a bespoke monitoring system that relays the readings from each device so that you don't have to hire a dozen new employees to stare at hundreds of cameras all day. I'd say it's worth it.

​@@Verdant02bro a wireless camera it's $20, by one thousand it's 20k. Please.....

@@Verdant02 The same people that monitor spot could just monitor the data stream from the stationary sensors. So no.

No There are other robots that can do this

Probably has to do with scale, you need a microcontroller for each variable you want to measure, but you only need one spot to cover 100s of variables. Then there's installation cost

In addition to what Tubeytime said, there's also the fact that Spot is a drop-in solution - they can do this at any facility, regardless of age, as long as they can see the gauges, record temperatures, and listen for audio anomalies. By contrast, any facility that's old enough isn't going to be wired for remote monitoring of equipment - and might even still be using analog sensors for things like operating pressure, temperature, or other functions. Those analog sensors would need to be replaced by more modern monitoring systems to connect them to microcontrollers or other digital monitoring systems - meanwhile, Spot can just walk by and read the dials the same way the humans the plant was originally designed for might.

This is pretty much the only use case Spot is good for, a drop-in replacement for a human designed facility where there can be hundreds or thousands of motors and gauges and bearings and such that would cost millions to retrofit with remote monitoring, but Spot can read or listen or temperature scan while wandering the facility 24/7.

And of course, sometimes sensors fail in an "ok" state, so having that additional redundancy check is a benefit.

​@@PhillipParr sometimes Spot fail in an "ok". fleet of Spots costs more and gather less data, less frequently than a fleet of sensors. patrolling camera is just a misuse of a great quadrupedal robot in my opinion. Spot deserves better

More reason for an unconditional basic income

@@e.v.k.3632 I guess so, even though I do not like the idea of unconditional income. I do not think it is good for the human soul either. Let people who receive basic income work together and grow food for example.

its not surprise robots, will replace more and more jobs. Common folks like us will have to adapt to the new era.

Look at all the unemployed people now because of those new fangled cotton mills in the 1700s!

We need an unconditional basic income

Nobody cares, and not first.

Ok but the personality of a fleet management Ai is going to be different than say a military AI or a traffic Ai

So what the OP is saying is, not the _worst_ valentine's day ever.

Эта компания не понимает как монетизировать своих замечательных роботов-собачек и роботов людей. Люди не захотели покупать себе домашних животных за 100 тысяч долларов. А на производствах вот это вот всё может заменить несколько датчиков (за 30 баксов) которые будут работать онлайн и передавать нужную информацию по слаботочке. Лучшим применением этих роботов является работа на неосвоенных территориях без риска для человека. И это война. Или разбор завалов после техногенных катастроф. Катастрофы бывают не часто, а в армию их будто не берут по каким-то ещë причинам