Right now we use cheap Asian manual labor for assembling clothing and electronics. This hand looks pretty accurate, anyone able to estimate how much current manual labor is replaceable?
With that level of speed and dexterity, I think its more likely that certain physical tasks will be outsourced like programming or call center jobs are now. The computer vision and semi-autonomy would compensate for the network lag and allow workers to guide the tasks without performing every minute adjustment and requiring haptic feedback.
Think assembled in the USA by workers in Bangladesh.
Holy mother of #$%#. This is one of those "Skynet" (or, to be less alarmist, "Data") moments I've been seeing with increasing frequency over the last few years.
The first was Big Dog.
This level of dexterity is just incredible. But the speed and precision is what really brings home how incredibly superior robots will be in physical activities soon.
