Comment by Zigurd
2 days ago
You can make a robot that's small, soft, and not powerful enough to hurt anyone. Or you can make a robot that's strong enough to carry a laundry basket or climb stairs holding a vacuum cleaner. But you can only operate that big strong robot when there are no humans around. Is that big strong robot an investable idea?
Waymos are kind of big robots that operate with people around.
That is an interesting comparison. More than 600,000 people not in cars are killed on roads every year. If a few hundred thousand were killed by humanoid robots every year it might make a cultural difference.
What do you think the robot makers need to do to have people accept the kind of death count cars deliver?
The main argument in favour of Waymos and the like is they will kill less people than human drivers.
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