> Every single task that was easy and economical to offload to a single purpose robot arm bolted down to the floor was already offloaded to a single purpose robot arm bolted down to the floor.
What about doing dishes? That could be done with one arm. Maybe not easy and economical yet, but could be.
There is plenty that has not been seen through.
Laundry folding machines are not in wide distribution.
Robots to put away laundry?
Etc. lots of mundane tasks.
Yeah I think there’s plenty of room for more bolted arm robots, it’s just similar to the humanoids they need better AI. There’s also room for more optimisation on the entire system design around more specialized robots. I think some industries work really well for that kind of revamp, and have already begun doing so. Others are waiting for the cost curve to fall for it to be worth the investment