How will AI do mundane work like:
- Cleaning - Picking up rubbish - Stocking shelves - Healthcare - Fruit picking
Thats only the start, while a lot of people do work on a computer, far more dont.
- Cleaning - Picking up rubbish - Stocking shelves - Healthcare - Fruit picking
Thats only the start, while a lot of people do work on a computer, far more dont.
Healthcare is probably the one that we need some sort of help with the most! I think the need for people (fine - or robots) working in Healthcare will grow faster compared to the others in the future because of population aging.
Edit: Clarified my meaning by adding "some people think" to the sentence "...because some people think AI will solve..."
So, eldercare is becoming a really serious problem. And they are already well down the road towards solving that problem.
As always, the future is already here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
There were all sorts of plans to reduce the future requirement by addressing issues earlier, and preventing patients ending up in hospital, but it seemed to me that reduced quality of care in the future is inevitable.
The only robots available today can barely bring a glass of water and they cost crazy amounts of thousands of dollars.
> Replacing cleaners with robots is already here. In many supermarkets and warehouses robots wet and dry clean the floors.
What do you think would happen to a hospital that only cleaned the floors ?
There are far more important places that need cleaning besides floors.
Hospitals need thorough cleaning yes and currently the quality varies greatly depending on who does the cleaning. If the cleaners have low morale and lack of motivation for whatever personal reason they do a crappy job. A robot doesn't have personal issues. The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
Take the 1x neo humanoid. It's lacking in autonomy only because the VLA model is still quite primitive. Now imagine what similar robots could do in 10 years if the AI side is fully developed.
Also the pricing is a non issue. A $50000 robot that can work for 5 years is a much better investment than paying a human.
Very easy to accelerate when you start with a small number.
> eventually all general cleaning personnel will be replaced by robots.
NO it wont.
Nobody will be able to afford robots because they will not be a replacement.
> Hospitals need thorough cleaning yes and currently the quality varies greatly depending on who does the cleaning. If the cleaners have low morale and lack of motivation for whatever personal reason they do a crappy job. A robot doesn't have personal issues. The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
A robot has FAR bigger problems, namely they cant actually do the job because of mechanical limitations and they cost too much.
> The level of dexterity is not there yet but eventually cleaning will be done only by robots.
Thats right stop bullshitting.
It doesnt count until a working example is shown and available. Robots can barely walk up stairs and you want to pretend they can do everything.
Its fine to criticize humans and point out their mistakes and weaknesses, but its not honest to downplay robotic cleaner negatives so they are effecitely nothing.
> Also the pricing is a non issue. A $50000 robot that can work for 5 years is a much better investment than paying a human.
A $50K robot can barely carry a glass of water.
Stop pretending robots are comparable to humans. Boston Dynamics mule type robots can barely run and cost millions EACH.
https://hackaday.com/2026/06/15/building-a-ceiling-based-cra...
Your idea of a ceiling is broken because most buildings are not ready for that. This idea only adds cost.
How many hospitals would actually be ready to be modified to support a track system, because from what ive seen most rooms are not design for such a clearance and open system. What happens if a room has a mess somewhere but the tracks to access the place are closed because doctors are busy underneath ?
Maybe its me, but i dont want a robot that may or may not leak mess over other sick patients. Seems like an unnecessary contamination with serious consequences, because today cleaners dont transport toilet mess over the beds of many patients as they travel from toilet duty to another place.
Your solution isnt saving money its simply requires a expensive investment in both new unproven machines, requiring a new skill of expensive installers along with serious building modifications.
To save a few dollars are you requiring hospitals to spend tens of millions with a payback of hundreds if not longer years.
Can you try picking some jobs that aren’t already heavily automated in many places?