Thirty robots marched in Warsaw to protest AI's impact on labor, commanded by human organizers. The demonstration was meant to show what modern humanoid robots can do. The irony writes itself: repetitive marching and chanting is exactly the kind of work automation is built to replace.
John Deere's AI-driven self-repair service, starting at $195 per year per machine, got a media demo at company headquarters. Wired's Boone Ashworth was handed a $120,000 tractor with a single unplugged sensor. He reconnected it. Deere reps applauded. Critics laughed. The service has roughly 1,000 daily users. The full piece is worth reading for what Deere chose not to demo: blown clutches, leaky hydraulic cylinders, anything that might actually fail mid-harvest.
Separately, a Japanese company has introduced a humanoid robot ambulance service, sending a repair unit to fix downed robots on-site and dispatching a spare to cover the patient's job during recovery. That last detail is the one to watch. When that logic gets applied to human workers, expect Warsaw to look like a warmup.
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