Yeah i mean for sure society as a whole will have to change, and it won't be "AI" doing it, but what ai will do for robotics is like what the internet did for commerce.
"The UK will never be able to roll out mass prefab houses", You sound like some boomer 30-40 years ago who said " the internet will never catch on".
The world can change a lot in 30-40 years.
They may not even have to, There is absolutely no reason why a swarm of robots powered by AI could not do renovations/maintenance on a current house. You are just waiting for when the weight/navigation/battery life problem can be solved (which ai will accelerate)
RaaS is worth £13billion in the USA, and is predicted to be 1trillion by 2035/2040.
Just because the UK is the least innovative western country, doesn't mean its not coming.
firstly chill yourself out
secondly, London and the vast majority of the UK's buildings have been standing for centuries. What I thought made perfectly sense for anyone was, that we the UK cannot roll out prefab buildings due to the densely populated areas we already have... hence the 'unless it gets flattened'?
We also have building regulations/control, planning permissions, environment acts etc which (to our annoyance sometimes) prevent a building being built differently to the existing surroundings (not sure how these glass buildings got approved in London, must have been a loop hole somewhere)
In our lifetime, we will not see robots taking over pretty much any construction work in the UK.. does it make it easier in certain areas? yes mainly management where I use it. Is it coming? maybe, But you are way off the mark in terms of timeline
USA afaik (mainly Florida that I've witnessed) prefab their houses. They have the space, they have the manufacture room and none of their buildings are made from brick & mortar. Their villas are the only thing I can reference as I have personally seen them being build but Unlike America, a lot of our houses & buildings date back to the 1800's, So in 30-40years time.. these will still be around and the regulations unless some crazy bloke changes them, will demand symmetry
in 1985, they thought we'd have floating skateboards by 2015
