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I can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.
I hope early home robotics will be like a game console launch - a community rush to break through any initial barriers to homebrew. Specific early firmwares will be desirable and a whole community will form around creating exploits and running user software. As old robot units fall out of service and are sold in bulk, the community will pick them up and keep them running.
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> Also like, loading and unloading the dishwasher is not that hard or time consuming. For a me a robot to do the dishwasher would be the number 1 reason for me to buy one. My dishwasher is basically going at least twice sometimes three times a day (household with small kids). If I "miss" a slot to get everything washed before the next meal time then two things happen: - the unwashed things begin to build up so there…
You have a house with small kids and you want a 600 pound autonomous robot walking around? These aren’t funny tech products, they’re industrial equipment.
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A couple weeks ago I saw a proud post by a humanoid robot CEO showing off how well his robots could sort objects on an assembly line. It was painful to watch. It's like he's never seen a real industrial sorting system in his life. Vision algos from 30 years ago along with simple mechanics or puffs of air were doing it 100x faster back then. I'm not convinced there is a bubble in AI, but there's definitely one in huma…
This is the figure tweet?
Nvidia needs to keep the hype train going, by throwing darts in every possible direction.
This is all mature stack, and the value is enormous and largely unrealised at this point - the systems they have for everything from training to implementation to edge inference basically present a complete capture of the ecosystem for robotics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, you name it - anything where you’re integrating input streams and acting on it, they’ve got covered, end to end.
I continue to hold a substantial chunk of Nvidia - because while hyperscaler spend may wane once the initial arms race subsides, they are uniquely positioned to pivot to making use of the output of hyperscaler and other GPU product.
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A robot that cleans my toilet would be nice. Sure I could have a dedicated toilet cleaning robot, and a dedicated dishwasher loading robot, and a dedicated pickup-up-crap-off-the-floor-the-kids-have-left-around-robot ... or just something general purpose? I don't care if it is humanoid or not, but given that our house is built for humans to interact with it seems reasonable that it should fit into that space.
A robot with enough arm strength to properly clean a stubborn toilet wouldn't be safe around kids.
I can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.
And it will have a Keep Warm option for monthly subscribers.
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Do you have stairs in your house?
Two robots
Still, I expect it won't matter - by the time we have reasonably priced robots that can reliably do all housework, that's like 90% of jobs eliminated from society and probably society will collapse.