Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "ChangeNode" channel.

Robotics engineer here - labour cost alone is not a meaningful metric. Human presence reduces opportunities to automate (a lot of safety-related limitations). Even if cost is only 10% now, removing a human altogether can allow you to build cars a few times faster, so cost savings will be way above 10% that you'll shave off human labour. And don't hold your breath on robots co-existing with humans. Even if technology will deliver (spoiler alert - it won't), the regulations will catch up years later. Large red e-stop buttons will be pervasive for years to come. As for 3D-printing - not that useless, 3D-printing unlocked generative design. You cannot machine such shapes with the regular subtractive machining, but metal 3D-printing can do all those organic shapes easily. In prototypes or in scale - does not matter.
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It's not a very accurate analogy. More likely, there was a massive shortage of plumbers, but training a competent plumber take years, so instead hundreds of thousands of toilet sit fitters were produced. With the same outcome as you explained, but the shortage of plumbers still existing and real, competent plumbers scratching their heads in disbelief of what all those self-taughts thought they're doing here.
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@Blimzio Not sure I met any ageism, and I am a bit older than you. And most of people I work with are about my age. A lot of us are from different backgrounds - I am a former particle physycist, we have former game developers in our team, people with other STEM-related backgrounds, pure matematicians, mechanical engineers, etc. So I'd say - go for it, it won't hurt, this is the domain that will exist (and remain quite conservative) for quite a while.
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The modern software is so bad because of self-taughts, bootcamp "graduates" and the world being infested by WWW. Developing apps in Electron, really? No matter how smart the developer is, the result will be an utter trash.
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@jimj2683 firstly, this is wrong and depends on alloy (see the 3D-printed rocket engines for example). Secondly, you don't need stronger with a generative design, you can get away with weaker and less material.
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@cryora and this is an incredibly hard problem to solve. Soft robotics (e.g., pneumatic actuators) can be promising, but there is a lot of unsolved issues with it. The usual hydraulic or direct drive electric actuation is not yet suitable for operating in the same space as humans - even if sensing and control is solved, there is still a need to prove that it is 100% perfect and glitches won't happen. Regulators at the moment only accept the full shutdown, no actuators powered as a safety threshold for humans (e.g., in industrial robotic cells).
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@ChangeNode agree, 3D printing did mot become a consumer end product. Plastic 3D printing is now an indispensible tool in any engineering and design shop, but is still too conolicated to be delivered to the masses.
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@DensityMatrix1 for AMRs, even fork lifts - sure, problem is mostly solved. The moment any manipulation is added (arms and such), humans are out.
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@DensityMatrix1 exactly - humans and robots are separated, robots are in well defined cell boundaries and there are numerous e-stop triggers, including light fences and such. They cannot co-exist in the same reach space.
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@Blimzio with an experience in the other fields you're not starting as a junior. And it does not matter if the experience is not directly relevant.
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 @jbest84 perl? We did it in DCL. Fun times...
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