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1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by Taikonerd »

fainpul wrote: post #64
yesfitz wrote: post #43

Their teleoperator position from 3-11 PM, M-F, pays between $22 and $31 an hour with benefits and is onsite in Palo Alto.[1] I'll be curious if they move those positions to a lower cost-of-living area as they scale up. 1: https://1x.recruitee.com/o/robot-operator

This is the next gig job. Poor people working as servants for rich people halfway across the world.

Oh, this was the plot of the Mexican sci-fi movie The Sleep Dealer: [0]

From Wikipedia: "A fortified wall has ended unauthorized Mexico-US immigration, but migrant workers are replaced by robots, remotely controlled by the same class of would-be emigrants."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJGQl-dJ6c&pp=ygUUc2xlZXAgZ...

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by denysvitali »

xnx wrote: post #72

Good video of how the hardware actually works from the WSJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so

Literally 5 seconds in and the first claim is already wrong.

"For 20k$, you can pre-order one now"

The pre-order is only $200

But yes, it gives a good perspective about what's the state of the robot right now

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by xnx »

atourgates wrote: post #51
leetharris wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Incredible technology, but that was an insufferable video. Still very cool, I might preorder one!

I hope you do! I'm skeptical of v1 of this technology, but I could imagine a mature version of this technology could be great. And $500/mo for essentially an always-available housekeeper seems very reasonable. Where I live, having a housekeeper come for a few hours once a week costs about $100 a week, or $400/mo. Having a robot that could potentially always be there to: * Tidy up. * Clean * Do laundry * Help with oth…

> And $500/mo for essentially an always-available housekeeper seems very reasonable.

Maybe, but you should factor in that many chores can't be done at all, and those that can be done will take ~10x as long.

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by sosodev »

denysvitali wrote: post #73
xnx wrote: post #72

Good video of how the hardware actually works from the WSJ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so

Literally 5 seconds in and the first claim is already wrong. "For 20k$, you can pre-order one now" The pre-order is only $200 But yes, it gives a good perspective about what's the state of the robot right now

That's just semantics. The $200 is the deposit. It's $20,000 to actually buy it once they're ready to ship.

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by disambiguation »

Surely the overlap between people with both the wealth and the preference for industrial machinery remote controlled by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children) over an organic house keeper is vanishingly thin, no?

The total addressable market for giant fighting robots on the other hand...

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by sam_goody »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #12

Cleaning robots are pretty good, and it's mostly a solved problem, for an order of magnitude (almost 2) under this price point. What else are we getting AT BEST beside taking out the trash and gimmicks?

Kohler once made a gold plated toilet seat as a display item for their show rooms.

The Kohler rep near me was pretty surprised when someone walked in and offered ridiculous cash for the seat on display. The buyer explained... "There is no way I can impress my guests more than having them realize that even the toilet seat is gold plated." Kohler wound up selling the whole run.

Nothing, perhaps, less than a Humanoid robot that is almost as good as Roomba.

People will pay a crazy amount of money to show off.

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by serf »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #12

Cleaning robots are pretty good, and it's mostly a solved problem, for an order of magnitude (almost 2) under this price point. What else are we getting AT BEST beside taking out the trash and gimmicks?

>Cleaning robots are pretty good, and it's mostly a solved problem

everyone that ever tells me that has hardwood or tile floors and a mostly uncluttered house with no doors.

yes: cleaning robots are a solved problem for people with clean uncluttered houses free of long-hair pets or a spouse/etc with a laundry-throwing problem.

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by serf »

disambiguation wrote: post #76

Surely the overlap between people with both the wealth and the preference for industrial machinery remote controlled by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children) over an organic house keeper is vanishingly thin, no? The total addressable market for giant fighting robots on the other hand...

>by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children)

I think that it's hilarious (in a grim way) that we got this thing : a 30kg robot with no proven reliability performing dynamic/active balancing at all times and everyone jumps to the fear of 'The Scary Foreigner' rather than the fact that this actively power-damp'd mass is actively trying to fall backwards or forwards, being held together by whatever control loop, onto your toddler or pet.

A single non-redundant power-failure is orders of a scarier proposition to me than a foreigner with a bad attitude : you can fix that with management and action auditing , more than a single person in the loop, etc. You can't fix the future awaiting technical failure.

We still haven't fixed bad technicals in any industry yet -- we occasional get bad planes delivered to customers. We have technical failures in pacemakers.

Re: 1X Neo – Home Robot - Pre Order

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Post by disambiguation »

serf wrote: post #79
disambiguation wrote: post #76

Surely the overlap between people with both the wealth and the preference for industrial machinery remote controlled by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children) over an organic house keeper is vanishingly thin, no? The total addressable market for giant fighting robots on the other hand...

>by an underpaid worker from the Philippines in their house (around their children) I think that it's hilarious (in a grim way) that we got this thing : a 30kg robot with no proven reliability performing dynamic/active balancing at all times and everyone jumps to the fear of 'The Scary Foreigner' rather than the fact that this actively power-damp'd mass is actively trying to fall backwards or forwards, being held tog…

Sorry that's not what i was trying to convey, but rather the elaborate loop hole to exploit cheap off shore labor over domestic workers. And yeah to your point about bad technical, plus my focus on the high powered hardware, all add up to legitimate safety concerns.
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