"Robots are coming to take our jobs."
Oh wait... :ironic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0TaYhjpOfo
Those particular robots? Obviously traversing sand traps, opening doors, getting out of vehicles, opening valves, and grabbing power tools are something that exceeded their capabilities
for that blooper reel. In another 10, 20, 30 years? Not sure I'd plan on a steady career doing, say, high-volume product assembly, call center work, highly iterative construction work, nor software testing (add 10 years to that date and then it's "software
creation"). Near human-capable purpose-built AI seems to be on the horizon; the borderline
sigularity-inducing adaptive/self-improving variety perhaps not too far behind that. We already use
genetic algorithms to solve extremely difficult problems - why not turn self-optimizing calculations on the underlying hardware and software itself?
God perfected making legs. Human creators apparently still suck at it.
Emphasis added. Suspect it's more a matter of
refinement of the concept than it is a problem technology can't solve.
Short of adapting robots to work within human confines (vehicles, vertical doors, tools designed for human hands), not entirely sure why we want to make bipedal robots.
I once read a comic strip where a janitor asks his fellow janitor:
"What will we do when robots take over our jobs?"
"Repair robots"
Until they make
self-repairing robots.