Robots need to beat humans on cost-per-dollar, not output-per-hour
VraserX · x · 2026-08-19
A viewpoint suggests that people underestimate the commercial logic of robotics: robots do not need to outperform humans in hourly output, but only in output per dollar. This implies that as long as computing and hardware costs are low enough, large-scale replacement is feasible even if the speed is slightly slower, provided the unit cost is lower.
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