A real AI challenge would be to create a general purpose handyman robot that can do common household installation/repair/maintenance on things not explicitly designed with automated maintenance in mind. Cc
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When you poke at “automated” maintenance you realize that it’s mostly about designing for higher resolution asynchronous replacement rather than repair, often with diagnostics on subassemblies/components. This is cheating. Makes economic sense but finesses the AI challenge.
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I think the DARPA grand challenge on search and rescue robotics (how did that go btw? anyone track that?) is a step in the right direction. Addresses the analysis half of repair by navigating brokenness and messiness.
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We're in the middle of our first Virtual round of competition for the Subterranean Challenge. darpa.mil/news-events/20
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