Two robots hanging off the side of a glass tower on ropes, washing windows high above the street. A full-size humanoid like this has a base price of about $90,000.
This is one of the scariest cleaning jobs there is. One bad anchor, one gust of wind, and it's a long way down.
Now do the math.
Window washers fall into a Bureau of Labor Statistics group of building cleaners with a median pay of $44,040 a year. That's for hanging off buildings in the wind, the sun and the cold.
Unitree, a Chinese company, launched its H1 humanoid at a base price of $90,000. At that price a robot pays for itself in about 2 years, even working a single shift.
And a robot never freezes up, never gets dizzy and never has a family waiting at home.
Watch the video again. Each robot has its own rope and harness, a bucket hanging below and a squeegee in hand. The parking lot is far below them.
The case for the humans: real crews check every anchor, every rope and every gust before they go over the edge. A robot that misreads the wind is a falling robot over a parking lot. And nobody has named the company or the building in this clip.
So would you rather see a robot or a person hanging off that building?
Pou chèf gang yo ak manm gang yo k ap kenbe kat konpatriyòt nou yo an otaj ann Ayiti:
Mesye nou kidnape yo pa konbatan. Yo se teknisyen nan domèn avyasyon ki fè pati misyon nou ann Ayiti, nan kad yon misyon entènasyonal. Misyon nou an gen sèlman pilòt ak pèsonèl teknik, ki gen kòm travay prensipal fè evakyasyon medikal epi sove lavi moun, pa fè lagè.
Men, nou te kidnape yo yon fason lach pandan yo t ap retounen apre yo te fin achte manje nan yon makèt nan zòn nan.
Se poutèt sa, jodi a nou te lanse yon operasyon militè pou pote yo sekou. Nou gen yon sèl objektif: fè kat konpatriyòt nou yo retounen lakay yo vivan, san okenn mal.
Men, mwen vle pou nou menm, chèf gang yo, konprann yon bagay byen klè: atak jodi a pa anyen devan sa k ap vini si nou pa remèt toule kat otaj yo vivan.
Epi pa pran pawòl nou yo pou menas san fondman. Nou deja fini ak gang yo nan El Salvador, e nou kapab fini ak nou tou.
Nou toujou gen tan pou evite sa.
Remèt nou kat konpatriyòt nou yo vivan, san okenn mal, epi tout bagay ap retounen jan sa te ye anvan kidnaping lan.
Desizyon an nan men nou.
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Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Ethiopia also feature among major borrowers.
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