These robot excavators are making workers more money
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2023
- With the rise of AI, more people are afraid of robots taking their jobs than ever before. But in this industry, AI is actually creating jobs - and helping workers make more money.
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Clayton Maute is one of the first robotic equipment operators in the U.S., working with autonomous heavy machinery in the construction industry.
The technology, developed by Built Robotics, enables machinery to work safely and efficiently within a designated “geofence.” Robots perform tasks, such as digging perfectly straight trenches, while human operators supervise and handle other responsibilities.
As the technology evolves, it's expected to make construction jobs safer, mitigate labor shortages, and increase pay for operators with robotic equipment skills. Maute's story showcases the fusion of AI and human labor, highlighting that despite fears, robotics can transform industries to become safer and more efficient.
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Speeding up/eliminating humans from menial/repetitive work is where the power of automation lies, but it also requires consistency to operate well. Digging a trench in very rocky soil would likely be beyond the scope of this system for the foreseeable future, but where it's suited to operate it'll be such an amazing force multiplier.
A huge part of robotic operations is developing and discovering techniques that can be reliably used by automation, that's why it pays so well, and why automation is so exciting since it frees humans up to do work only humans can do
Bull crap
Even rocky soil won't be an issue. AI improves by being trained. When the AI makes a wrong dig, the operator will correct it, it will learn and no longer need a person.
Malarky. You people watch too many Sci Fi flicks. The only thing AI will be good for is to blackmail you by creating your image/voice to say or do something you didn't. Great way for cops to clear those cases.@@SomeUserNameBlahBlah
Honestly that’s a great job ! Imagine having an army of diggers , cranes , dump trucks etc doing the digging ( it’s childhood again, I imagined this as a child !!! Love it
Imagine using an online form to tell a robot to come dig a 1 foot deep hole where the yellow paint is. Wake up the next morning and it's done. Sign me up!!
We can sign you up for the circus. 🤡🤡
I do Maintenence in robots that operate very similar to a miniature forklift. They have the potential to be very safe, however due to some shortcuts taken in the safety department, we have had a good number of injuries. Rather than using geofencing, we use QR codes on the ground and safety sensors of questionable effectiveness. Seeing things like this is amazing but also makes me laugh at the shortcuts my company took to try and catch up with the world of automation
1 more channel that the tube has limited in reach…
In such machines, a cabin is not needed at all. Remember the concept of Hitachi.
You would if you needed to control it manually in tough spaces
It can be either operated manually or automatic
the software can break, and after you hit the emergency stop button, you might want to reset it manually, also loading(driving) the excavator onto a flatbed truck probably still need to be done manually
It IS needed, you saw it needs someone to route a path, what if you have to take it down the road to another construction site? You route the entire street and stop the transit for that or do you just drive it yourself?
well yes, but this digger was built as a manually operated one, they just attach the big black box to it and it becomes robotic
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Such a cool video! I wonder what the limit will be for human operators to robotic heavy equipment? It was mentioned he had two at one point, but could he reasonably be responsible for managing half a dozen? And if so, how does that increase jobs for people? Any productivity multiplier often creates job losses. Really cool tech though and definitely the future we are heading towards.
It trades many less-paid jobs for fewer higher-paid jobs. You go from two or three operators (and a dude with the grade stick) to one higher-paid operator, but your labor is still cut way down.
This looks very interesting and also scary
I hate to ask the public, but how do I apply, I am very confident in my abilities but to be able to better man, I’m all in. I know how to do electrical and run heavy machinery so anything needed I’m your guy!
Can it slope a ditch ? Does it eliminate the guys that have to go in after the ditch is created ?
Literally taking jobs away from 10 blue collar workers and given it to a white collar worker that they’d want to have an engineering degree or something unrealistic. Eventually automation will be apart of everyone’s life, but what happens to the people that wont be able to make wages and survive because they don’t have the finances or means to undertake expensive degrees? We need to be careful with our advances, or all we will have across the world is billions of poor and thousand of rich people
If it is an automation machine
Which means you programming it
Then it becomes hackable???
It's a risk??
oh boy your in for a surprise
Bobcat?
Title should be "These robot excavators are making *the few remaining* workers more money"
These sentences are making me madness!
He kies!
Lets gooo
Has he a degree or can anyone be called engineer in the us?
what movie was it I saw where machines were after humans??? horror movie???
Unskilled labor, skilled labor, mechanical efficiency, automation, AI, unnecessary labor, new pest control target.
If hacker came in range of machine hacked the control and takes a control and can harm the humans just by controlling joystick with laptop
What is the "hacking range" for these mashines? This is not a video game.
The machines today are already steered by a computer. The input is from a human, but just after the joystick the computer takes over. You dont have to wait for the machines to take over full control to hack them, you can start today!
ah yes, the “hackers”
Do you think you need automation to "harm humans?"
We need degrowth so bad, tired of all this destruction of the environment
what does this have to do with environment
No. Humans are the most important. Degrowth is selfishness disguised as altruism.
LOL have you ever tried to look at a laptop screen in the sunlight and this so called robot has no clue as to what's left in the trench or how good a job has been done, it may have its uses but they look very limited? A JCB is a very versitlie machine in the hands of a skilled operator making adjustments on the fly - can't be done remotely very easily if at all.
Yeah but this skilled Operator your talking of Will waste it's time digging a three mile Trench
@@TecSanento Wouldn't a combo be a better situation where the machine is monitored by the operator in the cab, then it can get the go ahead if the trench looks good...its the remote part that just does not function as presented to me?
@@peteturner8493that defeats most of the purpose
That money should be redistributed! Too much of this will create mass unemployment and poverty! There needs to be laws to ensure against this!
Yeah, lets ban washing machines and bring back laundry women!!! Oh wait ...
@@hanstun1 I'm not against new technology, I'm against wealth hording and artificial scarcity. More automation will mean less jobs, but that shouldn't mean more poverty, but it will if we don't find a way round it. Share the wealth with such things as a Universal Basic Income (UBI) or increased and improved infrastructure. There are ways.
I do not believe you
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