Hot take: Following robot breakthroughs feels like watching paint dry

Tbh, I've been hooked on robotics news since college. I remember getting amped about early stories on self-driving cars. Fast forward to today, and every big announcement still feels years from real use. Just saw a piece on a new assembly line bot that took forever to program. Honestly, it's tough to keep faith when each step forward is so tiny. I'm curious if anyone else feels this wait is draining. How do you stay patient with the slow crawl of robot tech?

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hall.paul7mo ago

That programming time shows it's not real yet.

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charlie_ellis7mo ago

But look at how far the programming itself has come. Those old car factory robots needed code written line by line by experts, and now we've got tools that let regular workers show a bot what to do. Sure, the new assembly bot took time, but it's probably doing a crazy complex task that would take a human weeks. The crawl feels slow because we're watching each step, but we went from room-sized computers to phones in our pockets the same way. This stuff builds on itself, and the next big jump is always closer than it seems.

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miles_lane517mo ago

What makes you so sure the next big thing is around the corner? Every time they say it's easy, it ends up needing a team of experts anyway.

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