Humanoidization: Costs, Demand, and the Future of Work [Podcast]

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Humanoidization: Costs, Demand, and the Future of Work [Podcast]

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Humanoid robot companies are promising that humanoids will fast become our friends, colleagues, employees, and the backbone of our workforce. As Elon Musk described it when he first unveiled Tesla's Optimus: "It will upend our idea of what the economy is... it will be able to do basically anything humans don't want to do... it's going to bring an age of abundance." But how close are we to this reality? What are the key costs associated with operating a humanoid? Can companies deploy them prof...

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2024

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Bartneck, Christoph / Allan D

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https://hdl.handle.net/10092/107659

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costs / economy / job / robot / work / Engineering / Control engineering, mechatronics and robotics / Assistive robots and technology / Information and computing sciences / Artificial intelligence / Autonomous agents and multiagent systems / Intelligent robotics

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