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I am not convinced the limiting factor is the computing power on device or the price of computing. I would rather bet on current "AI" not been good at general purpose tasks.

Coherent thinking and creativity (AGI) is way above and away from the neural nets we got now. And I'd argue that's what needed to make robots super helpful with random human tasks.

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I think full warehouse automation e.g. Amazon will be the next one to go.

As it requires a large amount of labour so there is a lot of possible savings and consists of repetitive tasks in a controlled environment.

It would also be better PR to have robots than workers in bad conditions (stories about workers urinating in bottles etc. have made headlines in the UK).

Not quite amazon scale but we already highly automated warehouses in the UK with Ocado.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJqsdprXF5c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DKrcpa8Z_E

Do robots pick goods from the crates there? Or just the boxes go delivered to picking stations where humans work? It wasn’t clear from the video.

As far as I know they grab the items and bag them, then deliver the filled bags to the loading area. Not sure where the human interaction happens from there.

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