As is well known ... sympathy (or probably more accurately, empathy) is my "middle name".*
Regarding the design(s) - why have them approximate to the human form at all? Just design the thing to carry out its designated tasks as efficiently as possible. For example, if it's going to spend its life working as a fork-lift - why not have it look like a ... er, fork-lift?
OK, don't tell me ... it's "cute"!
Meanwhile, what about the cost? It doubt that it runs out at anything near the Minimum Wage level of
real humans; especially those on so-called Zero-Hours Contracts.
But lastly (and related in a way to the above question) - what are all those
zillions of humans going to spend their lives doing once such
gee-whiz technology does all the work (or at least, shifts all the boxes)?
How's that for thinking outside the box?
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Especially for (and with) machines, of course.
