Revolutionizing the Job Market: The Rise of Robots in Dirty, Dangerous, and Dull Tasks

19 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief excerpt, the speaker outlines why early robotic applications focus on the "three Ds"—dirty, dangerous, and dull jobs. These are tasks that humans either avoid or should avoid due to risk or monotony. Because such environments often require physical presence, robots are deployed to perform the work. The speaker also stresses that when operating in hazardous settings, the robot’s ability to make autonomous decisions on-site becomes increasingly critical.

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So is it because, like, so a lot, a lot of the early applications for robots is because the job is a dirty job, it's a dangerous job, or it's a dull job. The three Ds dull, dangerous and dirty. So these are jobs people don't want to do or maybe shouldn't do because they're a bit dangerous. And so then you need often in these cases, something physical that goes there and does the task. But in an environment that's maybe dangerous, then the ability for that robot to make some decisions of its own, etc. Become more and more important.