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AI summary:

The world's first mass-produced humanoid robot was the GR-1, developed by Fourier Intelligence in China[1][2][3]. The robot is 1.64 meters tall and weighs 55 kilograms, and is designed to help tackle labor shortages amid an aging population. It is capable of carrying patients from the bed to wheelchairs and helping to pick up objects[1][2][3][5]. While the GR-1 is often referred to as the world's first mass-produced humanoid robot, it is important to note that it is not the first humanoid robot ever produced. However, it is the first to be mass-produced, meaning that it is produced in large quantities for commercial use[3].

Citations: [1] https://www.euronews.com/video/2023/07/12/worlds-first-mass-produced-humanoid-robot-to-tackle-labour-shortages-amid-ageing-populatio [2] https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/12/worlds-first-mass-produced-humanoid-robot-to-tackle-labour-shortages-amid-ageing-populatio [3] https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/fourier-intelligence-gr-1-humanoid-bot/ [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgo-jF4j8g8 [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogiAkllCzA4 [6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhOND0JWoGA

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[–] MyDogLovesMe@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

“Labor Shortage”=“no cheap, or near slave- labor”

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Username.... does not check out...

[–] Yewb@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are these robots going to buy the goods and services?

Seems like full automation creates no consumers.

[–] Matte@feddit.it 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UBI is an inevitable future. the only question is when, not if. And probably the countries that will be able to create a better law quicker than others will get a decent economic advantage over the conservative ones.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't see it. They're fine with letting people fight over garbage to eat.

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but they need people to have enough money to buy their shit so they can get richer.

[–] Matte@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

so, who’s buying their products once everyone is unoccupied?

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Will they need anyone to buy their products at that point? They've already won capitalism and they have multiple mansions, robot slaves, AIs, and automated farming.

[–] cooljacob204@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In "Theory" it would drive down priced and the people buying from these places would have more money to spend elsewhere.

Theory in air quotes because regardless if it work out in the end it still takes away a lot of power from labors.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And that will push capitalism to the breaking point. We'll see what happens then, although many very bad scenarios are possible.

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The oligarchs will probably throw a fit and kill us all.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Oh boy here we go. Even the in-person jobs that require mobility are gonna get fucked by AI. I knew it was gonna happen eventually, didn't realize it'd be this fast.

[–] 0U714W@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

I'm actually pretty sure these robots aren't going anywhere, and that this is a PR push.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want a factory job though. I want a world that's organised well enough that people don't starve when you don't have menial labour for them to waste their lives on to justify being fed.

feeding and housing is just logistics and we're good at that. let the robots do physical work and continue feeding people as before.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

The intended market for these robots is countries where there's an aging demographic curve, meaning there simply aren't enough young able-bodied people to fill the jobs that need them no matter what salary you were to offer.

In countries where there's enough people for these jobs I expect human labor will remain cheaper for quite a while yet.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

So far, every piece of automatization created more jobs, and those jobs were ultimately better. Unfortunately people who works automated jobs will have to adapt, but the hope is, the society will help them with that.

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[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

I'm enjoying the irony of the automatic ai summary to read this for us.

[–] UnhappyCamper@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised they only made these guys 5' 4" tall. Seems kind of short. Figure they'd have greater abilities if they made them taller, though maybe they'd fall over easier, I don't know.

[–] nevemsenki@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Well, at least this one doesn't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger... yet.