Comment by smalltorch
3 hours ago
I was just thinking trades wouldn't benifit that much. We have trucks and cranes and stuff.
What construction material weighs 100kg? All the stuff is made to be installed by a guy or two. Big stuff is hoisted with cranes, heavy concrete is pumped. A sheet of plywood is carried by one man, a cement block gets plopped 2 feet from where it needs installed one by one, doors and windows are a one man show.
>. Big stuff is hoisted with cranes, heavy concrete is pumped.
None of that material handling is cheap.
If exo-skeletons ever get good they should have a good decade long heydey just by virtue of not being regulated to high heaven (yet).
Basically the same reason knuckle booms took over from truck cranes for routine delivery.
>None of that material handling is cheap.
None of it is handled directly by humans either. Exo skeletons would be sweet, I just think in reality construction is already highly optimized for regular strength humans. Would be very slim productivity gains.