An Air China leader said after observing the work site of the aviation inspection robot "robot inspection around the aircraft to replace the manual visual inspection is imperative, if each airport is equipped with aviation inspection robot, there will be no more Sichuan Airlines windshield breakage in the air accident.
Is it possible to replace the aircraft service?
Some readers replied: to be replaced, I think it is not possible. Even if the aircraft autopilot, or the need for pilots in the cockpit monitoring, there is a non-normal situation, human operation under. Repair the aircraft, the final development of the situation, at most, is this.
Machine replacement, who will take the blame?
Wait until one day the cost of labor is higher than a certain inflection point, and after the further development of technology, robots will certainly partially replace the human, when the wheel-changing robot, robot around the machine these should appear first. And the cockpit and cabin in the troubleshooting test, uncommon and narrow location of parts disassembly, these jobs are estimated difficult to be replaced by robots.
Don't worry, if the plane is repaired by robots, then the mechanics will repair the robots Automation only shifts the exploitation, and does not alleviate or eliminate it.
