newatlas.com: A new video from AIST, Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, shows a prototype robot designed to work on construction sites in situations where there is a shortage of human workers. The robot in undeniably slow but also strikingly accurate, suggesting a future where humanoid robots could replace even more human jobs.
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Japan has always been a nation that has used its man force and its knowledge to the tee. It is one of the best developed nations of the world, precisely because it knows how to make use of its resources.
The fact that Japan was going to be a successful nation was evident from the fact of how quickly it recovered from the WWII damages and was able to make a positive name for itself in the minds of other nations within a couple of years. All this was possible because Japan invested all its economic resources on its man force and pledged to educate its population for specialized rather than common place labor so that the man force is well able to advance the future of the nation. And who knew back in the day that Japan would one be the reason for the advancement of the world.
It is not surprising then that Japan's new model of a robot is advanced enough that it will affect the future of other robots that might as well be in making right now.
For a long time, Japan has been at the forefront of technology and innovations, with things such as their cars and automated restaurant systems, it’s no wonder they’re leading in creating robots that could replace the need for human workers as well. I think that their intentions are good though, because they’re not trying to get rid of human workers, they’re just trying to supplement the decline in their population where they might not have enough people working on certain things. They’re using the technology to solve potential problems that could arise, and not just try to figure out a way to make the highest profit off of getting rid of the human parts of it. I’m very interested to see how they further advance their technologies and progress with them in the future. Maybe their robots will even be able to take on bigger roles in societal jobs other than construction, such as service work or entertainment; and I’m curious to see how this will influence the rest of the world’s technologies and the way they treat robots. Just, hopefully they don’t go too overboard with the AI that the robots will actually be able to take over...
The article, Japanese construction robot demonstrates the future of building, by Rich Haridy, is an article I would read on my own time. The future and present uses of AI, and the advancements is the technology is an extremely interesting subject for me over all. Many fear the use of AI will take jobs away from people, but this is not the case, A country that is applying AI to improve their countries standard of living is Japan. This article gives further insight into Japan’s use of robotics on top of a short documentary I saw made by Vox, Why japan has so many vending machines. The video describes many ways ai is implemented, Vending machines is one of them. And how long term creates higher paying and skilled jobs, decreasing underemployment, which works well alongside of their “aging” population, more young people have fair employment out of school. In this article, Rich Hardy describes the creation of humanoid robots, a result of the future need to fulfill a shortage of human workers. And the article fills in the gap on areas Japan is trying to implement robotics, unlike in the video were what has been already done was mentioned. Overall I loved this article, it built off of things I was already interested in.
I am unsure how to feel about this, though am very pleased with the japanese government's response to the declining birthrate. I do believe that robots replacing labour is a positive thing, if instead the government provides a more comfortable life for it. What is worrying for this, is the loss in the craft of carpentry. Less people will have the opportunity to work with tools to find a personal physical love for woodwork. I am sure that it will become a hobby job to “hand make”, and not for practicality. It is interesting that the robot is built with a human form, I wonder why that decision was made. Humans are versatile and search for facial recognition in everything they observe. I am also curious to how sentience of a “working” robot will develop in comparison to AI’s created for the purpose of conversation. There is a huge look into what the future might become, and I am nervous and curious to the future development of robotics.
I have seen a number of this type of article, citing up and coming technology as the future of building, and I think that they key word in that phrase is future. I think technology like this is quite a ways out in terms of theatre in particular, one because most theatres simply will not have the funds or setup to accommodate something like this robot, secondly because theatre is so wide and varied that a robot like this would likely be very useful when building flats and platforms, but maybe not so much when it comes to weird custom pieces that are undoubtedly present in every show we do. I think this variability in the work of theatre will put off robot replacement for quite some time. I think this technology will root in other industries, and then theatre will take the little bits that are useful to us, just like we normally do.
I believe robots are going to be the future of machining, manufacturing, industral processing and whatever other processes we think we can make them do in the future, but I don't believe that this robot, or even its successors will be that future. As a culture, we tend to fixate on the human form when we imagine robots. Just looking at pop culture is enough to make it clear that humanoid robots are what society thinks of when they think of robots, and I don't think that is the answer. In fact I think that creating facsimiles of ourselves is going the wrong direction. The human body is an incredibly complex system that requires incredible coordinatino just to achieve bipedal locomotion, which this robot really struggled with, when bracing itself for screwing in that panel. I think the research being done at boston dynamics with their quadruped robots is very promising for alternative and out-of the-box thinking for the most efficient robots for whatever application.
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