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Chinese Unitree's demos are better by now imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dFTc4W8wm0
Something rubs me the wrong way when the dog is hit and kicked, and we don't have a dog. I know it's a robot but the same could be demonstrated without clear violence. Maybe it's just me..
How long before someone can buy a robot to do a manual labor job for them? I mean, buy a robot and send it to some company to do a daily job where the company pays the robot owner for the use of the robot?
No, the fifth industrial revolution won't leave space for us kowly individuals to participate in I'm afraid.
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Humans recharge for 1/3 of the day. That's achievable with batteries. The rest schedule might be a bit different.
Well yes but we can perform 16 hours straight then. If you look at what elite alpinists can do (or more like are rarely forced to do) it can be easily 72 hours full on brutal effort on physical and mental limits, with 0 margin for mistake, no food or water. Not so much case here now I presume. Not that that would be a bummer here nor the baseline, but humans can be properly amazing and we keep stretching the possible…
A company might happily have 4 hour shifts to facilitate charging the robot workforce, if that means they dont need to deal with unionizing, smoke-breaking, hung over, late coming, slow working and generally unpleasant humans in their workforce.
Anyone who don't know what manufacturing automation looked like for past decades should go watch those "factory tours" video or two. Then write down what are shared characteristics of manually handled objects in it and what are deltas between those videos and this. There are just way too many fantasies around here. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQeQWGqfFN0 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csifG1AM5d8 3: https:…
Same idea with individual production. A toyota factory builds you one exact copy of a car in any colour you want (as long as it's black). But we might go back to a more individualised default in manufacturing, where for example tailor made clothes become affordable to most people again.
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Imagine you're working your 35-hour shift at the Fulfillment™ Center and all around you there's robotic eldritch horrors scurrying through the two-storey high shelves
Factory robots that move in general are kind of gimmicks, except for those roomba things for Amazon warehouses. An assembly line with robotic arms has been standard for a long time now. And having many such arms working at the same time is normal. And each robotic arm will be doing one extremely narrowly defined task. Anything involving autonomous judgment and mobility introduces uncertainty.
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I don't really want a robot wandering around doing laundry. I think what most people want is a box you dump clothes in and they come out folded, an extra machine next to the dryer. That would be a genuine time saver. I hate scaling Mount Foldmore.
Not at the level of dumping a basket of dryer clothes into a folding machine but getting close: https://foldimate.website/
I love how it waits for ~5 seconds after the job is done. It is almost like it is getting rebooted.
It's probably stopping to finish each verse.
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Yeah. The robotics is impressive either way but the AI is unclear.
Happy to be corrected, but AI isn't mentioned in the title or video anywhere. What's with the expectation of learning new tasks? All this would be impressive regardless of that.
Is the noise coming from the robot? I thought they retired the hydraulics version?