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Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by sillysaurusx »

garblegarble wrote: post #79
ctoth wrote: post #76

For solving long term tasks like finding things that aren't there, you can turn the annotated scene into a templated description and feed it to a large-enough model trained on interactive fiction. You are standing in a kitchen. Ahead of you to your right there is a large refrigerator with the handle on the right side. There is a set of cabinets to your left with a plate sitting on the counter above them. > get beer Y…

Great, now we can teach robots to wander around rooms looking for things, saying "keys, keys, keys... where would I put keys?"

Get a Tile. I have one attached to my keys, and saying "hey Alexa, find my keys" has been really nice. We also have one taped to our remote, which turned out to be excellent since our couch constantly eats it. I just wish it lit up, but sound-only is fine.

It would be really cool if the robot could just know where your keys are by attaching some kind of tile-type thing to it. If it already has a scan of your home, theoretically it could show a photo. But I have no idea if it’s possible to pinpoint an object via rfid.

Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by alexthehurst »

developerDan wrote: post #56
sandworm101 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> improving things for people with disabilities improves things for everyone Everything has its limits. Many years ago I was involved in building a series of staircases in a rock climbing area inside a park. There were about a hundred steps in a handful of orientations to get from the parking lot over a rocky hill to the small valleys behind. The project was primarily to prevent trail erosion and falls. These steps…

It’s so frustrating that city leaders can’t even try to use common sense. Where I live a parking requirement blocked a restaurant from being built and our city council publicly acknowledged that there isn’t enough space for parking and a building, but “that’s the law” so they blocked it. Lazy idiots.

Isn’t that the point of the parking requirement? If you don’t have room for enough parking to support the Thing, then you don’t have room to add the Thing to the neighborhood. Seems like the intended outcome.

Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by KomoD »

thebruce87m wrote: post #57
rsync wrote: post #51

I very much want a stabilized platform vehicle that I can send point-to-point with a payload on it. So, a gyro-stabilized platform like a segway that I can send back and forth from point A to point B on a not-terrible-but-rough (walking path) route. I have tried to stay abreast of the options in the past and have never seen anything that matches this ... does anyone know if there is anything new that matches this use…

You’ve maybe seen these already in restaurants? https://www.pudurobotics.com/product/detail/bellabot Not sure I’ve seen them take drinks though, but definitely food.

Some of these robots are kind of "jittery" from what I've seen, I've seen soup delivered without spilling but it might not work well with drinks (not on "rough" terrain obviously)

Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by xanderlewis »

marci wrote: post #38
fnordpiglet wrote: post #29

This is remarkable and could be life changing for the disabled, elderly, gamers, or profoundly lazy and their caretakers.

I forgot where I saw that, but generally, improving things for people with disabilities improves things for everyone, like making sidewalks wheelchair friendly helps parents with a stroller, or people carrying heavy stuff, walking with a cane, young children on bicycles, people who can't see well...

‘Designing things like door handles for people with only one arm is a good idea not just because it helps those with only one arm, but also because all of us sometimes have only one arm. If we’re carrying a hot cup of tea, for instance…’

…to (very liberally) paraphrase Rory Sutherland.

Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by DoktorDelta »

jacobsenscott wrote: post #87

It appears slow, but tests show it completes most tasks more quickly, accurately, and with less complaining, than most members of the gen z cohort.

It must not have anything better to do with its time

Re: Show HN: OK-Robot: open, modular home robot framework for pick-and-drop anywhere

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Post by samatman »

fnordpiglet wrote: post #58
sandworm101 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> improving things for people with disabilities improves things for everyone Everything has its limits. Many years ago I was involved in building a series of staircases in a rock climbing area inside a park. There were about a hundred steps in a handful of orientations to get from the parking lot over a rocky hill to the small valleys behind. The project was primarily to prevent trail erosion and falls. These steps…

In the US? I assume ADA was the kicker. A lot of folks even in government don’t realize the ADA isn’t unthinking. If the activity or environment doesn’t lend itself to accessibility it’s not required. Cutting a wheel chair ramp into a mountain face is a good example where the ADA wouldn’t apply because it’s impractical given the environment to do so. Even national parks only offer a subset set of activities ADA compl…

Making an on-the-record decision to not provide accessibility is grounds for a lawsuit on that basis. It doesn't matter if they think they'd win that lawsuit, it's a chilling effect, and a big one.
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