Boston Dynamics Spot used as preventive maintenance

[Black Phoenix]

Well could this be the end of preventive maintenance as we know, like having maintenance people on a factory floor going around checking equipment at a schedule, being those people then assigned to fix stuff (or knowing some bosses, just fire then and outsource the work).

I see good things as being able to go to places where a human could be in danger:

- Close to working machines as the ones with robot arms;
- Damp/humid places with electrical cables submerged in water;
- Chemical gas atmosphere (non EX atmospheres of course).

But will it be another tool at the disposal or a replacement of a position?

What time frame we could see such happening: 5 years, 10 years, earlier, later?

[coppercone2]

the part that I find amusing is the cyberdog napping that might eventually occur near public infrastructure where no one wants to pay anyone to go lol

Like the moral part of 'not robbing the poor guy working for the power company' is not there when spot is on the job!

I think if you are over zealous with replacing employees things will start to happen...


I say this because its amusing to think of what will happen with a unattended Fluke equipment wandering around outside. 

I think spot is gonna be walking with a heavy chain once the realities set in. I see spot with a fluke attached like this: