Waiters/Waitresses/bellboys etc just lost their jobs

[jaysabi]

Waiters/Waitresses/bellboys etc just lost their jobs

Spot Price 74500 USD
Human BellBoy salary 1000-3000 usd / month ( developed countries )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkCQXHEgjA


74500 usd / 3000 = in around 25 months i will recover my investment with Spot as a hotel owner ,no more need for human worker ...

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Boston Dynamics

What an alarmist and ridiculous post. There's no way the robot in the video can replace a bellboy or a waiter. The robot can walk and avoid obstacles and pick itself up after it falls. That's a far cry from doing all of the things a human is capable of doing, doing better, and doing 25 times faster. There'll probably be a use for these robots when they're far more developed and capable. What was shown isn't replacing waiters or bellboys.

[panganib999]

Still even with the existence of such innovative machine known as robots that are intended to make works easier and faster at the same time, still humans are much greater and irreplaceable specially when it comes flexibility and skills required to do the tasks. Upon watching the attached video, yes, it is really impressive to see a robot serving foods to customers but that will only apply on fancy restaurants for if we are talking about mobility or the ability to get in crowded places specially on fast food and low budget restaurant, still humans can do the job even faster and accommodate the customers on a friendly manner which is one of the characteristics I always seek upon eating on a restaurant because food is really the basis but the additional factor comes on how accomodating the waiters and the personnels are towards their customers.

[LogitechMouse]

Its kinda funny that you will see in the future the waiters/waitresses but not as a normal person anymore but as a robot already.

Its hard to believe but this is what is happening right now and this is already predicted to happen because our technology is evolving faster than expected. Its quite unfortunate for those professions that will be hit by this thing but there is nothing we can do about it but to adjust unto it. Well a person will always have a big difference compare to a robot so there is a possibility that there are some fastfood companies or any company that will still prefer people than robots.

[bryant.coleman]

This is a very unrealistic scenario. Waiters are needed in restaurants, because they have a deep understanding of the customer preferences. If the restaurant tries to replace a waiter with a robot, they still need someone to give instructions to it all the time. So instead of employing one person (waiter), the restaurant will end up employing two persons in the same place (instructor + robot). Who will be interested in this costlier option?

[acener]

It is great to move forward but with it there are lots of people who would suffer are we really willing to take it?
The poor are being discriminated by the society and yet this inventions would also be a competition for those who seek basic jobs to feed their family.
Now I understand why in some movies with high tech or robotics features there are always a place filled with only poor or dark side of glorious city because that would really happen when we live in that kind of generation.
But it is all just my imagination or what I think of when I read the title and see the thread.

[Cnut237]

It's not just an issue for 'physical' jobs. We are now in the age of big data, which offers huge potential for machine learning advancement, which in turn leads to the threat fo a lot of 'white collar' jobs being automated out.
The question is will new jobs arise to replace the old, jobs that only humans can do? I'm skeptical - if you automate out human labour, there are still jobs that require human intellect... if you automate out human intellect, where is there left to go?
This is why schemes such as UBI are enjoying so much attention... in preparation for a potential future with much fewer jobs available.

[AniviaBtc]

Unfortunately this is how the civilization works.New technology replaces human labor.People,who work in low and minimum wage jobs and are performing repetitive tasks are pretty much screwed.
However,I don't believe that this Spot Robot will be mass adopted by the small businesses anytime soon.

That's the reason why people are afraid of immediate advancement of technology due to that kind of issue.

Unemployment can really increase when we engage into a more advance and developed industry with the use of innovated machines and robots.

But we need to accept the fact that there is always changes when there's a time. We need to accept that our community should adapt on the things where it can make our lives easier and better with the use of technology. Human labor is also important but what can we do if we need to adapt in that kind of technology to help our economy grow better, especially in terms of production.

[jaysabi]

Unfortunately this is how the civilization works.New technology replaces human labor.People,who work in low and minimum wage jobs and are performing repetitive tasks are pretty much screwed.
However,I don't believe that this Spot Robot will be mass adopted by the small businesses anytime soon.

That's the reason why people are afraid of immediate advancement of technology due to that kind of issue.

Unemployment can really increase when we engage into a more advance and developed industry with the use of innovated machines and robots.

But we need to accept the fact that there is always changes when there's a time. We need to accept that our community should adapt on the things where it can make our lives easier and better with the use of technology. Human labor is also important but what can we do if we need to adapt in that kind of technology to help our economy grow better, especially in terms of production.

Jobs constantly become obsolete and disappear. This causes hiccups in the short term on an individual level, but the economy is constantly evolving and creating new industries and new jobs. People having been warning that the economy was facing ruin ever since the start of very efficient, mass-production factories in the 1940s. We've never reached the economic apocalypse on account of jobs disappearing because new jobs that people previously couldn't have imagined came into existence. There's no reason to think the doomsayers are right this time either.

[sulendra12]

I'm pretty sure a group of people bought that thing for their own pleasure, as you can see right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agE9nfxXqY8 (OfflineTV)

The worst case, any jobs that require real human will definitely vanished once everything become automatic. We have seen robot as the waiters, as the receptionist etc in the developed country such as Japan.
BUT, most of the conventional store/hotel/job still needs human do to their stuff, since human can make stuff better and has really high precision. Also not many industries have budget to actually afford buying robots :p

[AjithBtc]

This is a very unrealistic scenario. Waiters are needed in restaurants, because they have a deep understanding of the customer preferences. If the restaurant tries to replace a waiter with a robot, they still need someone to give instructions to it all the time. So instead of employing one person (waiter), the restaurant will end up employing two persons in the same place (instructor + robot). Who will be interested in this costlier option?

Already we've got self served restaurant. People make the order and the food is produced to the table through a belt. This is found more effective, so a restaurant without waiter and waitress isn't a big deal. The owner should think of giving life to the waiter and waitresses. Apart from this, these restaurants won't give the ambience of being in a restaurant. It can even spoil the mood of eating.

[Hemady17]

Everything in this world will change when AI robots is perfectly made. It helps every people to have an accurate work and give a complete services that made a business grow more further. However, workers will lose also their job because AI can do it all alone without a single help of a worker. Its only good to the employer and customer because of the quality it can made. But to the side of the people who lost jobs because there is an alternative ways already, I think its hard for them to adjust in situations like this.

[vaultman]

In the future, it will most likely happen that many professions will become unclaimed, but definitely not in the near future, because at the moment it all looks unfinished. Considering the speed of technological progress, the ready-made version for sale on the market will already be in 10-15 years.

[Lanatsa]

In the future, it will most likely happen that many professions will become unclaimed, but definitely not in the near future, because at the moment it all looks unfinished. Considering the speed of technological progress, the ready-made version for sale on the market will already be in 10-15 years.

10-15 years? Its just way too much I guess, maybe a decade we would see this stuff but it all matters on how fast or slow the progress of technology is which as you had mentioned.

Majority of companies will really consider on making out such transition because they would surely see on what are the benefits and the savings that they would really make.

Losing jobs? this had been a problem yet technology does progress and involved on where man or physical jobs would make it even more simplier.

[AndySt]

Everything in this world will change when AI robots is perfectly made. It helps every people to have an accurate work and give a complete services that made a business grow more further. However, workers will lose also their job because AI can do it all alone without a single help of a worker. Its only good to the employer and customer because of the quality it can made. But to the side of the people who lost jobs because there is an alternative ways already, I think its hard for them to adjust in situations like this.

The system of unconditional basic income can serve as a way out of this situation. Humanity should be ashamed if in the future, with total robotization, there will be hunger and lack of effective medical care in the absence of funds for a citizen of the state. The current artificial intelligence is the first bell for humanity to create a fairer system of the world order. Some countries are already trying to take some steps in this direction with varying success, because there are many pitfalls in this issue, but it is still a question of the near future.

[Jose Junior de oliveira]

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[naikturun]

can someone explain the meaning of the video? I only see four legged robots just walking around?
what does it mean to say that people's jobs will be replaced.
I think it will take a while to complete, or maybe not 

[jaysabi]

can someone explain the meaning of the video? I only see four legged robots just walking around?
what does it mean to say that people's jobs will be replaced.
I think it will take a while to complete, or maybe not 

Op thinks that these robots will be able to do basic jobs like waitressing or bellhopping just because it's able to walk somewhat decently.  I don't buy the utility of these particular robots for those applications. These robots might have utility in a war zone more than anything where they can carry supplies over rough terrain.  I don't seem much commercial utility for them in this form.

[lovesmayfamilis]

The substitution of manual labor threatens those professions where there are no requirements for education and qualifications. All work that involves repetitive actions can be easily done by artificial intelligence. But it is difficult to imagine such professions that robots could perform. For example, these are doctors, surgeons, teachers. These professions will not face unemployment for a long time.
Nevertheless, such professions have appeared that can control robots. There are many more advantages to using robots, in my opinion.
And if we talk about the people themselves who become unemployed, then there is always the possibility of getting a new profession, retraining. It is always necessary to keep up with the times.

[tyz]

Waiters/Waitresses/bellboys etc just lost their jobs

Spot Price 74500 USD
Human BellBoy salary 1000-3000 usd / month ( developed countries )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkCQXHEgjA


74500 usd / 3000 = in around 25 months i will recover my investment with Spot as a hotel owner ,no more need for human worker ...
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Boston Dynamics

Quite apart from the fact that there are some other costs for human employees besides salary, a robot would pay for itself even faster. But: There have been repeated attempts in the past to replace humans with robots and in the end all the experiments failed for various reasons. In Japan, there was a hotel with only robots as waitresses and butlers. This was abolished because the customers preferred to be served by humans. Walmart has also recently announced[1] that it will abolish the robots used to monitor the shelves and employ people again. You see this far too negatively.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-robots-bossa-nova-check-inventory-staff-humans-2020-11?r=DE&IR=T

[Fortify]

"Just lost their jobs" is overexaggerating and intentional clickbait type writing. It will be many years, maybe even decades before this sort of technology ever starts to take those sorts of jobs away. At the moment, this tech is still in the very early stages, and while it is impressive - I can only see it being used for very specialized jobs in the near term. It will be absolutely ideal for things like search and rescue after an earthquake, or as a more dexterous bomb disposal robot, but it's not going to be serving you a three course meal in a fancy restaurant for a long time to come. There may even be a bit of a political and public backlash in future if there is no way to replace the jobs, making it hard to survive without government support.