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Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#11
Everything about this product looks terrible.

Must operate on a perfectly flat surface. My roomba could probably handle a larger carpet curb than that top-heavy thing.

Head and eyes appear to be at human crotch level for some reason... gross.

What a waste of engineering talent.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#12
post #9

Surrogate slavery is going to be a large business one day. If you are telling me that one day I'll have a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave. Why wouldn't i pay 50000 for that, besides the obvious "you are a creep" like why do I care when it's coming and market forces are going to make it an indistinguishable substitute…

Someone or thing to help with chores would be great. But abject exploitation? Sex slave, even? I should hope we can find a little decency within ourselves..

https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robosexuality

Could it become true ?

Well, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_fetishism we live in the future already

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#14

Surrogate slavery is going to be a large business one day. If you are telling me that one day I'll have a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave. Why wouldn't i pay 50000 for that, besides the obvious "you are a creep" like why do I care when it's coming and market forces are going to make it an indistinguishable substitute…

Because your sex slave uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion?

That's gonna be a bonus for some people.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#16
post #2

> The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion. Suspiciously absent: a rough idea of what percentage of tasks need the assistance.

Same, I suspect its awful and their strategy is to improve and rely less on it, which would be fine to me if they'd be transparent about it.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#17
post #8

Feels like they cloned the vacuum cleaner Roborock Saros Z70, and attached the arms to a pole instead of the base. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x9TdqrvDHWY Especially the arm clamp is the same shape, the actions are practically the same (take object and put in basket, teleoperation with live camera). The type of thing you have lot of fun for 5 minutes. Cheaper Unitree robots that starts at 4,900 USD are impressive…

> a Weave specialist

Lol. Folding engineer.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

#20

When comes to lower part it’s always bipedal (hard to balance) or wheels (low capabilities). Why no one makes 4-6 legs, insect like? That seems like an easier problem to solve while gives much better mobility.

Entomophobia/arachnophobia is far too common for giant bug-like robots in folks' bedrooms.
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