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Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Post by chris_mnhn »

wackget wrote: post #33

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.

i thought it was kinda obvious, given the raspberry pi and programmable interface: it doesn't _do_ anything on its own, but its a programmable robot that you can tell what to do. i'm speculating that there'll be a marketplace of user-submitted and official HuggingFace "apps" to load onto it

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Post by georgeecollins »

wackget wrote: post #33

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.

OMG!!! I want one in my office so that every time someone comes in it will turn to look at them with those camera eyes and creep people out. That's a very valuable use case IMO.

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Post by falcor84 »

Aurornis wrote: post #57
wackget wrote: post #33

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.

> It has nothing to do with the disrupting the “robot industry”

This has everything to do with disruptive innovation as defined by Clayton Christensen, where a new product enters the marketplace "at the bottom", with fewer and/or lower quality features but at a significantly lower cost, and then (if successful) gradually improves the feature set and quality until it displaces incumbents "Gradually and then suddenly".

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Post by throawayonthe »

falcor84 wrote: post #85
Aurornis wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> It has nothing to do with the disrupting the “robot industry” This has everything to do with disruptive innovation as defined by Clayton Christensen, where a new product enters the marketplace "at the bottom", with fewer and/or lower quality features but at a significantly lower cost, and then (if successful) gradually improves the feature set and quality until it displaces incumbents "Gradually and then suddenly".

a $300 alexa-like is at the bottom of the market?

Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry

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Post by odyssey7 »

throawayonthe wrote: post #86
falcor84 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It has nothing to do with the disrupting the “robot industry” This has everything to do with disruptive innovation as defined by Clayton Christensen, where a new product enters the marketplace "at the bottom", with fewer and/or lower quality features but at a significantly lower cost, and then (if successful) gradually improves the feature set and quality until it displaces incumbents "Gradually and then suddenly".

a $300 alexa-like is at the bottom of the market?

I don’t know much about this market but that context would be relevant.
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