China’s $1 Billion Robot Army Is Replacing Human Maintenance Crews with 8,500

[rto]

Power grids worldwide face an aging infrastructure crisis, but China just announced a $1 billion solution involving 8,500 AI robots. State Grid Corporation of China plans to deploy this robotic workforce across 26 provincial regions by 2026, representing one of the most ambitious grid-specific robotics deployments ever attempted. Your energy bills and power reliability might never be the same.

The robot breakdown reads like a sci-fi inventory list:

• 5,000 quadruped “robot dogs” patrolling substations and mountain transmission lines

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/science/a...185923398.html

We need some of them robots around here during hurricane season.
When I get my robot I want it to have a head so that I'll know which end to yell at if/when it fucks up.

[44044]

A brave new world…

[aviator]

Are they solar powered or nuclear powered? Sounds like BS. Batteries can't go on forever, the one in my golf cart is 105 Amp/Hour and I can only drive it for like 2-3 hours non stop and that's a big, big battery, bigger than a robot can carry at 70 lbs.

[rto]

Maybe there are charging points along the grid that they are servicing that they can plug into. Kinda like the household robo vacuums do.

[aviator]

Maybe there are charging points along the grid that they are servicing that they can plug into. Kinda like the household robo vacuums do.

So the robots would have to "go to sleep" for about 10-12 hours to get a full charge?....I think a chink and a bowl of rice would be cheaper.

[Klauss]

I have to show this to my wife, so I can convince her to let me get a 50 BMG.

Doubt the 45-70 government will be enough, I’ll just omit the maintenance worker part😁

[aviator]

I have to show this to my wife, so I can convince her to let me get a 50 BMG.

Doubt the 45-70 government will be enough, I’ll just omit the maintenance worker part😁

For about $22K you can get a ma deuce, it's .50 and more firepower....if you can afford to feed it.

[rto]

So the robots would have to "go to sleep" for about 10-12 hours to get a full charge?....I think a chink and a bowl of rice would be cheaper.

I'm sure that they'll have a lot of bugs to work out IF the story is even true.

[Sanders]

So the robots would have to "go to sleep" for about 10-12 hours to get a full charge?....I think a chink and a bowl of rice would be cheaper.

There are so many little zipperheads over there, they are probably just putting them in suits and calling them robots.