Robots can do 74% of physical tasks. So why aren't they taking the jobs?
A new study finds robots can already do most physical tasks, but are cheaper than people for only 0.3% of work.
A new study finds robots can already do most physical tasks, but are cheaper than people for only 0.3% of work.
· AI voice, from Anthropic research, Digital Today, Neoteo
Archive photos: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; paper robot drawn by AI Broadsheet; Music: “DL - 120 BPM TV waiting loop” (CC0, Freesound); Sound effects: Freesound (CC0)
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Robots can already do 74 percent of physical tasks in America. So why haven't they taken those jobs? That's from a new study by Anthropic, the company behind Claude. Its AI rated 19,000 job tasks, and many robot tasks only work in factory-like settings.
The catch: robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3 percent of work. One win: packing boxes. About 45,000 dollars a year for a robot, 49,000 for a worker.
But welding robots cost about five times more than welders. Dishwashing robots, several times more. Robot costs fall about 3 percent a year. At that pace, it takes about 40 years before they're cheaper for even 10 percent of work.
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