Recently (let's say 5 to 10 years), a beer distribution company in my neck of the woods automated the picking process in their warehouse so that they could fire all the workers who put the stacks of beer on skids for shipment. They hired enough engineers to make sure the machinery ran properly over time and everything was great for like a year.
Then middle management realized something. The engineers weren't really doing anything. Maintenance for a one year old automated system isn't very time consuming.
So they fired the engineers.
Now it's five to ten years later and the billion dollar machine can no longer be used because it has not been maintained properly and there is no one around who can fix it.
My point is, even if they automate a system, these people are not intelligent enough to understand how to maintain it. Often this requires very in-demand highly effective intelligent people. Middle management narcissist douche-bags have no clue what such an effective nerd is even like (usually they are the quiet ones everyone takes for granted).
So. The center cannot hold. It all falls down. Middle management ruins everything a tech company thinks they can achieve. It's pretty funny really.
To focus on the humanoid robots part.
Recently (let's say 5 to 10 years), a beer distribution company in my neck of the woods automated the picking process in their warehouse so that they could fire all the workers who put the stacks of beer on skids for shipment. They hired enough engineers to make sure the machinery ran properly over time and everything was great for like a year.
Then middle management realized something. The engineers weren't really doing anything. Maintenance for a one year old automated system isn't very time consuming.
So they fired the engineers.
Now it's five to ten years later and the billion dollar machine can no longer be used because it has not been maintained properly and there is no one around who can fix it.
My point is, even if they automate a system, these people are not intelligent enough to understand how to maintain it. Often this requires very in-demand highly effective intelligent people. Middle management narcissist douche-bags have no clue what such an effective nerd is even like (usually they are the quiet ones everyone takes for granted).
So. The center cannot hold. It all falls down. Middle management ruins everything a tech company thinks they can achieve. It's pretty funny really.
most boring thing you can think of is really the design goal 99% of the time. you're being paid to cut risk not generate it. boring is safe.