>>13545993The rollout of surgical robots was infamously fraught with horrific surgical mistakes because of how unfamiliar operators were with them resulting in an inability to perform basic tasks which existing surgeons would have considered routine.
Who cares about degrees of freedom when it takes hours of programming and then 6-8 minutes of signal lag just to move the armature, and then another 6-8 minutes for you to even see where it moved? Then more time to make sure it actually did what you want, then more hours of programming to move it again to the next step, so on and so forth.
Congratulations it took you three hours to pick up the rogg, and oops, you didn't quite input the grip pressure right so after eight minutes of waiting you've realized that it slipped out of the robotic hand! Time for another three hours of work!
In an EVA suit you simply reach out and grab the rogg, completion time five seconds. Sure, it's uncomfortable, and it's much more awkward than if you were just out walking around in summer clothes, but there's no lag time and unlike any robot you are intelligent and can observe and react to your environment instantaneously.
Just because a half ton industrial arm is vastly stronger than a human is irrelevant, that armature takes hours or days of programming to make it complete a short list of basic movements and functions in concert with other machines, it cannot understand it's environment, it cannot react to unexpected problems, as evidenced by pinning accidents, or misadjustment accidents causing machining errors all the time. A robot can have ten joints and be ten times as strong as a human but if it cannot instantly react to an ever changing environment without hours of programming time it is useless compared to a human being.
