Why Robots Won’t Take Your Job Yet | Harrison Crum

I would love nothing more than for humanoid robots to be doing the trash collection job. The question is, can they climb stairs? Can they lift heavy, you know, trash bags? And can they do it efficiently? And if they can, I'm envisioning pulling up to a property with a, you know, trailer full of 10 robots, giving them each an assignment and saying, you do these buildings, you do these buildings and go, you know, now how far away from that we are, I have no clue. I look back to my time when I, right out of college, I went to work for Ford Motor Company, and the talk at the time was autonomous driving. That, you know, by five years from now, there won't be steering wheels and vehicles and everything will be autonomous. And that's the direction we're going. And here we are 12, 13 years later, and, like, we kind of have done that, we've kind of achieved it. But I still think we're probably five to 10 years away from fully autonomous being an acceptable form of transportation for most people. I think that while humanoid robots are exciting, we're probably 10, 15 years away from them actually being able to do the things that would replace someone's job.