This needs to be essentially a vending machine, which it easily can be as there is no reason for this not to be stacked. In a year, this can be 10x faster and work 100% of the time. It just seems like each of the components hasn’t been finished yet.
As it it could have been made years ago, so according to you it was done years ago.
Not cost effectively. This only works with rising wages, and ever cheaper computers and hardware. Now that that became cheap, and labour became expensive, it now makes economic sense to develop these kinds of machines.
But they haven't had long, and they only have lower millions to upper hundreds of thousands R&D so the best YET is this.
Nothing works 100% of the time, that's just pure fantasy.
Most things work 100% of the time, pretty much everything in fact. The internet works because things work 100% of the time. Now this isn't 100.000000000% of course, but 99.9999% absolutely.
Meanwhile you are hiding your assumption that it can be made cost effectively now, in a year, or in the next decade behind "this is the worst it is ever going to suck".
This only works with rising wages
No, automation makes sense when the TCO is lower than wages regardless of where they are moving.
ever cheaper computers and hardware.
Simple reduction in the cost of the raw materials needed for an automation system are sometimes a way to cross that threshold, but a lot of times it requires an innovation in how they are applied to a specific task.
I can't speak to the hardware side, but the rise in computing power has slowed, so that would have been more convincing a decade ago than now.
Most things work 100% of the time, pretty much everything in fact. [..] Now this isn't 100.000000000% of course, but 99.9999% absolutely.
Those zeros add absolutely nothing, while every added nine represents potentially exponential increase in design and maintenance, while every removed nine results in increased downtime and repair.
As to your impression that things work 100% of the time, its just another case of our inability to intuitively grasp scale. You are looking at a very small set of things, most of them for a very short time and almost certainly not meticulously documenting every instance of downtime that is rapidly fixed.
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u/ninjad912 13d ago
I mean. Automation is supposed to do trivial tasks for you. That’s kinda the point