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Reachy Mini Lite specs say: "Compatible with Mac and Linux (Windows soon)" Ahahahahaha! Ahem. How the mighty have fallen.
are you suggesting that Windows doesn't have the majority of the install base?
In the end, I'm not sure I get what this is for - the venturebeat piece seems written by an AI.
Nothing in the article, the video, or the manufacturer's own blog post explains what this thing actually does . Seriously. This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece. As far as I can infer, the thing's basically a smart speaker which rotates.
The blog explains it: It can move its head, antennas, and rotate. It’s a little humanoid desk toy to stand in for computer interaction. It has nothing to do with the disrupting the “robot industry” like the Venture Beat headline says. It’s a little animated thing to house the AV equipment.
The robot mostly looks like a very basic alternative to the Lego robotics offerings (mindstorms/technic/spike). And, they are in more or less the same price range as well Not sure what huggingface is going for here. Seems like a big distraction for the company
"Reachy" is a weird name for a toy that has no arm or hand capable of interacting with its environment.
For some reason it reminds me of the Nabaztag rabbit shaped, Internet connected device of a dozen years ago.
Sure, but presumably those $70,000 robots aren't just a cute case for a Raspberry Pi + camera module.
There is a Black Mirror episode about a robot doll!
I bet in a few years we'll be walking between cute looking potential killer machines and everybody will think it is normal.
"Reachy" is a weird name for a toy that has no arm or hand capable of interacting with its environment.
The robot mostly looks like a very basic alternative to the Lego robotics offerings (mindstorms/technic/spike). And, they are in more or less the same price range as well Not sure what huggingface is going for here. Seems like a big distraction for the company
...But...
I'm so confused by the economics, and not in a general way.
I'm a mobile developer by trade, and AFAICT from dipping my toe in the water of servers, file downloads are on the order of $0.01/GB, and cheapest you'll get publicly is maybe $0.04/GB. But they never ever charge and regularly have people downloading tens of gigabytes.
That's the cost side as far as I understand it.
On the revenue side...afaict all they have is inference? And they don't seem to be popular for an inference solution? I don't hear much about it and they don't seem to care too much.
How do their economics even begin to pencil out? It bothers me, I've lived through enough companies to know this doesn't matter in the short term. But this is novel, to me, in that there's no plan, no market being addressed. With other money losers, you knew what they were trying to do and they were doing it.