Should the City of Gardner MA Deploy Robots to Alleviate Workload?
The Country of China plans to produce its first humanoid robots by 2025 and their Ministry of Industry and Information says their advanced bipedal droids will carry out menial, repetitive tasks in farms, factories, and houses to alleviate workload. It’ll be shorter than most humans at 5 feet 4 and weigh about 121 pounds.
In the United States, Elon Musk’s Tesla continues to work on its Optimus bipedal humanoid robot and estimates its $20,000 robot could be ready in 3 to 5 years.
Should the City of Gardner deploy humanoid robots in City Hall? Or use them to help out the labor shortages of the DPW? As robots go mainstream in the next 10 years, it will be a question it will have to answer.
When was the first robot ever developed? It was in the early 1950s in the form of a hydraulic arm used to lift heavy loads and was sold to General Motors.
One thing we know for sure: Robots are no longer science fiction. Decisions will need to be made as to whether to deploy them locally or not.