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  • Its about generalization. A robot like this only works in a very controlled environment. Any unforeseen variable will completely stop it in its tracks. To be able to do a trade job it would need to be much more flexible. Good luck building a single machine that can work outdoors, in heat, in snow, in rain, in mud, in a sewer, in a narrow cable or pipe shaft, buy material, analyze problems, drive to its work site, verify results, deal with customers, etc. One human can do all those things and much cheaper and more reliably than any robot or swarm of robots ever could. The real world is messy and complex, not a show room prepped to only include problems the machine can solve.












  • Ah yes the preventable or malicious actions of humans are totally equatable with literal wild animals existing in their habitat. Those things you list happen while people go about their normal every day lives, you cant avoid them as long as you want to participate in society. To get killed by a bear in this forest you need to actively decide to go there and disregard the warnings. If you die there you are 100% responsible for your own death and maybe even that of the bear that may need to be put down because of your idiotic intrusion into its territory.