Embodiment is 1000x harder from a physical perspective.
Look at how hard it is for us to make reliable laptop hinges or the articulated car door handle trend (started by Tesla) where they constantly break.
These are simple mechanisms compared to any animal or human body. Our bodies last up to 80-100 years through not just constant regeneration but organic super-materials that rival anything synthetic in terms of durability within its spec range. Nature is full of this, like spider silk much stronger than steel or joints that can take repeated impacts for decades. This is what hundreds of millions to billions of years of evolution gets you.
We can build robots this good but they are expensive, so expensive that just hiring someone to do it manually is cheaper. So the problem is that good quality robots are still much more expensive than human labor.
The only areas where robots have replaced human labor is where the economics work, like huge volume manufacturing, or where humans can’t easily go or can’t perform. The latter includes tasks like lifting and moving things thousands of times larger than humans can or environments like high temperatures, deep space, the bottom of the ocean, radioactive environments, etc.
Look at how hard it is for us to make reliable laptop hinges or the articulated car door handle trend (started by Tesla) where they constantly break.
These are simple mechanisms compared to any animal or human body. Our bodies last up to 80-100 years through not just constant regeneration but organic super-materials that rival anything synthetic in terms of durability within its spec range. Nature is full of this, like spider silk much stronger than steel or joints that can take repeated impacts for decades. This is what hundreds of millions to billions of years of evolution gets you.
We can build robots this good but they are expensive, so expensive that just hiring someone to do it manually is cheaper. So the problem is that good quality robots are still much more expensive than human labor.
The only areas where robots have replaced human labor is where the economics work, like huge volume manufacturing, or where humans can’t easily go or can’t perform. The latter includes tasks like lifting and moving things thousands of times larger than humans can or environments like high temperatures, deep space, the bottom of the ocean, radioactive environments, etc.