Christopher Mims on Nostr: “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody ...
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.“
- Kurt Vonnegut
This week, I went in search of the companies digitizing the upkeep of the least sexy, but most important part of our world.
What I found was a bestiary of robots unlike any I’ve encountered in any other industry.
🧵
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inspection-robots-infrastructure-ebb4172c 
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