Nope, sorry, we have machines that poop now too. (Art!)
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At least my hitchhiking gig is safe for a while longer.
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If labor were a significant component of housing prices. (Part of the cost of new homes, but not for existing.)
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Looks like weāll all have to join your sit-in.
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Love that one, but this is the robot that has been specifically engineered to replace me on the field:
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Likely teflon, from how you describe the symptoms.
Even regular smoke can be pretty bad (hydrogen cyanide, anyone?). Thatās why the breathing devices are used.
I donāt know about womenās work, but if they create a BjorkBot that will talk to me about televisions 8 hours a day, I will pay all my $$$.
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Hell, you donāt even need a vaguely humanoid machine for that. Just ask the EOD guys who named, and refused to give up their robots. These guys get attached, and have been known to treat the robots like pets, going so far as to demand that their own personal robot be fixed after a devastating explosion that left it as mostly scrap, than to accept a new one.
This could be saying more about the job specifically though, than it does about human-robot interaction generally. I know I get attached to my tools, but not so much that Iāll be heart broken when the time comes to trade up. But thereās definitely machines that I take care of that feel a bit like a pet. A very bad pet, but still a pet. Like the Roomba at my work. Although, Iād rather we just had a dog, with how often it jams itself deep under a desk, then runs out of juice.
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Thereās definitely sexism. Traditionally enforced no less. I was thinking as I read the headline āthat makes complete senseā.
Reason being, robots have been developed in the first place to do repetitive, back-breaking, labor-intensive tasks. This, traditionally has been done more often by males, simply because sexual dimorphism makes them better at it than females on average. So of course robots would easily replace people who do these jobs, and those people are traditionally mostly male.
But now itās pretty obvious that robots can do most things, and the things they canāt do are all solvable, as long as you keep the problem space small enough, so now robots wonāt be just putting lumberjacks and automotive welders out of a job, but also data-analysts, drivers, and increasingly more skilled labor and knowledge-based tasks.
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Even my effing inner voices have been automated:
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Heh, it sounds a little like someone hooked up an instance of ELIZA to WisdomOfChopra.
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The Independent i100 has been running "Can we guess your gender using Science? " quizzes recently.
Maybe Iāll be OK, the algorithms always guess Iām female ā¦ 
Oh good, itās a problem that mainly affects men. Then we can ignore it and never have to speak of it again.
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The worst are the immigrant robots who illegally cross the border, then go after our jobs and our women!
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What?
Construction involves several skilled trades with rigorous training programs.
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I donāt think anyone said that?
[ETA] Likely because it affects men, it WILL be addressed in all seriousness.
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We showed that Canadian robot a thing or two in Philadelphia, by howdy!
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The factory automation is already in full swing. The process is well underway. No addressing on the radar so far.
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