The corollary that robots must work in human spaces, is that much of the biggest gains in the past century relied on building infrastructure to make the technology feasible (railroads for trains, power lines for electricity, fiber optic cables for internet).
Building a general purpose robot may be like building a 18-wheeler without the interstate highway. I don't think such a robot could reach large scale adoption without equivalent investment (whether it's tooling, affordances, and reconfiguration of spaces)
True facts! The trick is that if you are trend setters, you need to sell people on the idea of trains and railroads at the same time. So you can totally include modifications to the "human spaces" in order to make your robots work in them, but you should think of your robot *and the modifications* as your product. (And your value prop has to cover the cost of the whole shebang.)
The corollary that robots must work in human spaces, is that much of the biggest gains in the past century relied on building infrastructure to make the technology feasible (railroads for trains, power lines for electricity, fiber optic cables for internet).
Building a general purpose robot may be like building a 18-wheeler without the interstate highway. I don't think such a robot could reach large scale adoption without equivalent investment (whether it's tooling, affordances, and reconfiguration of spaces)
True facts! The trick is that if you are trend setters, you need to sell people on the idea of trains and railroads at the same time. So you can totally include modifications to the "human spaces" in order to make your robots work in them, but you should think of your robot *and the modifications* as your product. (And your value prop has to cover the cost of the whole shebang.)
Disability regulations/requirements are a robots best friend.