12 01
The robot that learned to bend clothes

Llega uno a esa web y escribe: “Periodista”. Y la web le responde: “Probabilidad de automatización: 8%. Bastante improbable”. Qué alivio. Si escribo “taxista”, la sentencia es: “57%. Difícil de prever”. Y al preguntar por “camarero” da una apuesta contundente del 90% contra su supervivencia. Pongamos un perfil muy en boga: “Ingeniero electrónico”. “13%. Bastante improbable”. No tanto, si lo piensas bien. Pon cifras a tu angustia. ¿Te va a sustituir un robot?El robot que aprendió a doblar ropa El robot que aprendió a doblar ropa

The tool is from the BBC (Will a Robot Take Your Job?), And is based on an Oxford and Deloitte study.There are other similar apps.And another report, this one from McKinsey, which is tremendous: he says that 800 million jobs will be lost before 2030.One in three.

We have assumed that robotization threatens less qualified jobs.But fear already reaches elites.Automata surgeons will be more precise than humans, because their pulse will not tremble.The autonomous driving will reach the airplanes and leave the pilots on land.In a cruel paradox, the cusp of the coming labor pyramid, robots engineers, can end their own occupation if they do so well that, Machine Learning through, they manage to create robots capable of designing robots.That is not going to be tomorrow.But will be.Someday.

Try to comfort you with this: the machines are resisting some skills that seem simple and boring.For example: fold clothes.It turns out that our motor and sensory coordination is not so replicable."Things that children do at 10 are the most difficult to learn for a robot," says Pieter Abbeel, from Berkeley.The industry has been trying to decades.But it does not give in view of a fabulous business.

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El robot que aprendió a doblar ropa

The first gadgets that bend clothes are large armmade and very expensive.Laundroid, for example, looks like a great closet and is announced for about 13.000 euros.Foldimate is more affordable: it already supports reservations from 900 euros, it does not occupy more than the washing machine and the closet you put it.I ask the web for the future of the trade of "laundry, dry and ironing cleaning".81% probability of automation.They have it ugly.A new robotics border is going to cross.

All technological revolutions destroyed jobs and created others.None left the oily humanity.If what you expect is that in the end the robot pays taxes to finance the basic income that you will live as a cap, I wish you good luck.Thomas Friedman writes..I tell my daughters that they will have to invent a job ".We better go looking for new jobs.Rather, invent them.