Humanoid Construction Robot Installs Drywall By Itself

Jobs of America’s 10 million construction workers are in serious jeopardy to be replaced by robots. What’s the point? Technocrats invent because they can, not because it is wise to do so. Will humanity de humanized if it is cared for exclusively by machines? ⁃ TN EditorIf Japan’s Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute has its way, construction workers might be a thing of the past. Researchers have built HRP-5P, a humanoid bot that can handle a vari