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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

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So you will have low-paid Africans from 3rd world countries tele-operating a robots in rich peoples houses doing chores?

Yes, that's the path we're on. It may start with poor eastern Europeans, then gradually move to Africans who tele-operate on eastern European homes.

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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.

A couple hundred legs would be optimal.

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#43

2027 will be the year of the robots. I also saw Tesla is ramping up to make millions of Optimus robots. And Amazon bought Fauna robotics which I predict we will start seeing "last 100 ft" deliveries soon. Amazon's Rivian packmobile will pull up to a block and 5 Fauna robots (they are short) will jump out and start delivering packages to the neighborhood. The robots are coming...

Do we have any evidence that Tesla is actually working on manufacturing millions of robots?

I mean, it's entirely possible that Elon Musk is lying about the whole humanoid Tesla robot thing and it's a total utter scam and that everything online is just cgi, but let's pretend he's not that much of a scam artist.

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

#44
So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place.

What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision on every frame. Very curious about the embodied AI architecture that this is going to use, and how it can get cheap enough that it's not going to use $500/month in electricity every month.

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#45

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…

> a robot that cooks, cleans, is a personal assistant, a therapist. Eventually it'll be a chauffeur, babysitter, and obviously sex slave. Used to be called "a wife", before emancipation. Seriously though, the future is made of human beings more and more isolated from each other because technology will give us all that we used to get from other people, with none of the annoyances. Each the king or queen of their solip…

Separate people are easier to control, collective action is anathema to the ruling class.

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

#46

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…

A robot babysitter sounds like a suggestion made by somebody who doesn't have kids.

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

#47

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.

Going from 2 to 4 legs doubles the amount of actuators required and substantially increases power consumption since you must move more mass, going to 6 compounds the problem further. In a future where we have more dense power storage and better (and cheaper!) motors, you probably will see robots with more legs. But for now, the most efficient solutions are bipedal.

Especially because this thing is already $8k, I imagine they have already done some substantial price optimization.

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

#48

2027 will be the year of the robots. I also saw Tesla is ramping up to make millions of Optimus robots. And Amazon bought Fauna robotics which I predict we will start seeing "last 100 ft" deliveries soon. Amazon's Rivian packmobile will pull up to a block and 5 Fauna robots (they are short) will jump out and start delivering packages to the neighborhood. The robots are coming...

Do we have any evidence that Tesla is actually working on manufacturing millions of robots?

They cancelled the production of two vehicles, announced that those lines will be retooled for the robots , and they have jobs recs out. Who knows if they will be able to sell millions but it doesn't sound like they're not trying.

https://www.tesla.com/careers/search/?region=5&site=US&state...

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

#49

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.

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