>It needed to achieve the lifting limits recommended under the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for human workers, which include repeatedly lifting 23-kg bins and reaching shelves 1.75 meters high. Digit is designed to perform tasks like these for 20 hours a day—something no human can do.<p>I think that rather underestimates what people can and have done (cue John Henry story).<p>I worked in an Amazon warehouse for two different stints:<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfillment_center_warehouse_worker/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/EDC/comments/dmnuts/53mamazon_fulfi...</a><p>and it was rather like a gym membership which I couldn't skip out on (glances at exercise equipment cluttering living space) and during which I could ponder life choices and consequences while wishing there was a soundtrack/music.<p>That said, this sort of thing, LLMs/AIs and data centers, and so forth feel like a perfect storm leading up to singularity (as envisioned by some optimistic science fiction authors) or something far worse, cue Marshall Brain's novella "Manna":<p><a href="https://karmak.org/archive/2003/12/manna/manna1.htm" rel="nofollow">https://karmak.org/archive/2003/12/manna/manna1.htm</a>