roberto ramirez

[roberto ramirez @robertoramire56]

أنا ممتن لتبادل المحتوى الذي تقدمه للقراء. وضوح الكتابة في هذه المقالة أمر يستحق الثناء. مارا روتجر

[roberto ramirez @robertoramire56]

@A19genius It is better to know than to never know and always wonder.

[genius @A19genius]

THIS IS THE ONE JOB THE ROBOT VIDEOS KEEP GETTING WRONG.

it lifts a dumpling with chopsticks, waits while he chews, ladles broth, wipes his mouth with a napkin. then it takes the handles of his wheelchair and pushes him out into the trees.

no shift change. no agency calling at 6am to say nobody is coming today. no daughter driving ninety minutes each way.

the problem is simple.

a home health aide costs $16 to $18 an hour and an agency bills $30 to $35 for the same person. forty four hours a week runs past $6,000 a month, and most families are paying it while also doing the nights themselves. it’s the largest labor bill in the developed world and almost none of it is on a balance sheet.

now the smart objection, and it’s correct: feeding is twenty minutes. the job is the other twenty three hours. noticing that he ate less than yesterday. hearing that his breathing changed. knowing he says he’s fine because he doesn’t want to be a burden.

but flip it.

what actually breaks families isn’t skill, it’s coverage. somebody has to be there at 3am, on the holiday, on the day the aide quits. that’s a scheduling problem before it’s a care problem, and it’s the reason people move a parent into a facility years before the medical need arrives.

that’s what makes this clip different from every other robot video. everything else on my feed replaces a task. this replaces a shift nobody can fill.

and here’s where I’ll break from the usual answer: I don’t think the economics decide this one.

the honest catch: he can hold his head up and swallow on his own. no transfer out of that chair — lifting a person is the task that injures the most caregivers and the one not shown. no bathroom. no night. no medication. and a machine near an airway during a meal is a regulated medical device, not a gadget. a robot that scratches a wall costs you a wall. a robot that gets this wrong costs you a person.

so the question isn’t whether the arms are good enough yet.

would you accept this for your own parent — or only for somebody else’s?