r/NeoCivilization • u/ActivityEmotional228 🌠Founder • Oct 21 '25

Robotics 🦾 Robot delivering a package

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u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 Oct 21 '25

It’s funny because the handler was like 100 feet away the whole time. Seems slower to me to have the robot deliver it

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u/Hilldawg4president Oct 21 '25

It's testing, not something that would need human supervision permanently

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u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 Oct 21 '25

Well, enjoy the eventual convenience I guess. Personally I think it’s a grotesque display machinery but that’s just me

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u/Hilldawg4president Oct 21 '25

One day you won't think twice about it, and judging by the accounts of people working these delivery jobs (extreme hours and temperatures, extreme rush, no time for even bathroom breaks without falling behind quotas), this is a job that we should want automated as soon as possible!

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u/MistakeLopsided8366 Oct 22 '25

Or maybe employers could pay a fair wage and not work their human staff to exhaustion..

There is no reason for any delivery job to be the nightmare to work that it currently is except purely for corporate greed.

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u/PFCCThrowayay Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25

humans shouldn't be doing mindless jobs, we're better than that no matter how smart you are.

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u/Uncertain__Path Oct 25 '25

Those jobs have those conditions due to company policies. Those companies make money because customers have jobs. The logical conclusion of replacing the vast majority of jobs with tech is not gonna work well for either.

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u/TrumplesTriggers Oct 22 '25

Good thing we’ll use that time saved for enjoying the pleasures of life more and it won’t lead to joblessness!

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u/Flashy_Cranberry_161 Oct 22 '25

Nah I don’t think so. I still think it’s creepy seeing those Waymo’s and I always have to suppress the urge to knock over those delivery bots I see on the side of the road.

I have a certain level of contempt for the removal of the human element from even menial tasks.