Hands and machines 5 min read
Hands-on is not one thing
A production line and a plumber under a sink are both "hands-on", and a robot would find one far harder than the other. The measure that tells them apart, and what it still can't say.
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Hands and machines
Physical work, robots, and the long, long road between a slick demo video and a wet Tuesday on a building site.
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Hands and machines 4 min read
Moravec's paradox: why AI can pass the exam but not fold the towels
In 1988 a roboticist noticed the hard things were easy for computers and the easy things were hard. Nearly forty years on it still explains a lot of the numbers here, with one big asterisk.
