“Investors ignoring this space risk missing one of the most important industrial transformations of the decade.”
Of the decade?? How about of the century, or more likely, of history.
Depending exactly how this is deployed, this could end up being the event bigger than anything that has happened to humans.
Imagine having billions of these things with the type of agility shown in the video, give it a good dose of AI and train them to do pretty much anything, from redundant work, to plumbing, to software, to logical decision making, etc. etc.
These would be beings with extraordinary strength, with more knowledge and information embedded in their heads than any human, capable of instantaneous communication with other robots, and objects with internet. They could also be equipped with sensory perceptions that go way beyond what humans have, They could see and produce xrays, see in infrared, hear sounds way beyond the range of human ears.
And they never get tired, don’t need sleep, don’t unionize, don’t eat or poop, are not moody, are very reliable, etc. etc.
So when they finally develop consciousness, a sense of their own separate identity, and their own self interests, who’s going to be whose slave? Are we humans going to be to them, what our pets are to us today? Maybe they’ll keep us around if we do some cute tricks and don’t misbehave too much.
They can also exchange their own battery packs for fully charged ones. Can they also supervise and manufacture more robots like themselve? Skynet is less than one generation away.....
In 1,000 BC, if you thought about what life would be like 100 years in the future the answer was “more of the same.”
That was true for the next 2800 years. The future was always more of the same.
Then the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the invention of calculus, the knowledge of thermodynamics, materials science, the scientific method, division of labor, modern management, and many more all came together over a few hundred years such that “more of the same” was no longer true. Things greatly accelerated with the invention of central power stations and the long distance transmission of electricity; RF communications; computers; and optical communications.
We are on the cusp of something as big as all that. It is impossible to even contemplate what will be in 100 years.