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A team of humanoid robots is working collaboratively at a car factory in China
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The appeal is that it's a single robot that can do many different tasks based on the need, and directly work in spaced designed for humans. It's the universality of it that's the real benefit. With industrial robots, you have to design a robot for each specific task, and then it can only do that one task. This makes sense for factories that build a specific type of thing, and it's more efficient in that context. However, if you want a tool that can do many different tasks, then a humanoid design makes a lot of sense.
And now that the cost of these robots is becoming very cheap, I think UniTree sells them for something like 18k now, it's cheaper to just grab one of these general purpose robots and get it to do what you want than to design one from scratch.
Is there data on the power draw and maintenance aspect? Looking at these I feel like this is something that's gonna need fixing all the time (due to all the moving parts) and having more than a small amount will be highly inefficient in terms of space and power. I imagine they are able to recharge themselves though so you don't have to worry about that.
I haven't really looked at whether anybody published lifecycle maintenance costs or not. I guess as these types of robots are put to use, we'll learn more about cost effectiveness.