Robots have always been known for working long hours without fatigue and for being able to cope with repetitive and simple tasks, but is this really the case?
In 2017, a robot named "Pepper" was applied to hospitals, which is mainly used to provide intelligent guidance and rehabilitation training services for patients, assist patient data, process medical reports, and track follow-up treatment.
It was a product that seemed very sci-fi at the time, but due to the overuse of Pepper, it was "overworked" less than 1 year after its birth.
I thought it was a fault that could be fixed, but in fact it was a fault that could not be repaired, and it ended up in a box.
On April 26, 2023, at the ProMat 2023 International Logistics and Supply Chain Exhibition held in Chicago, USA, a robot Digit suddenly fell to its knees while making a demonstration.
According to the official version, Digit has a 99% success rate, but after 20 hours of work, it still collapsed.
On June 26, 2024, the Gumi City Hall in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, said that a robot had stopped work after rushing down stairs.
The robot was serving administrative documents at the time of the incident when it fell down the second-floor stairs and was subsequently found unresponsive.
People at the South Korean City Hall suspect that the robot died of overwork and committed suicide.
At present, the application of robots in life is not very wide, although many people think that robots can work for an unlimited time, but in fact, most of the time is spent in continuous maintenance and overhaul, and even sometimes it will be damaged.
The three cases of robot overwork that we have seen are not all of them, but because these three incidents have been exposed to the public for various reasons, which has attracted our attention.
How many of these things are happening in the shadows?
After all, in this era, as a human being, who is in the life of 996,007,896 taking care of himself, how much energy does he have to pay attention to a robot that can be completely discarded?
Robots are the same, do you feel stronger than robots as a human?
Finally, let's summarize in one sentence.
Work is inexhaustible, physical health is the most important thing.