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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

#51

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 imag…

Real question: what about 3 legs? Is tripedal locomotion a viable compromise?

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

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not CGI - just human-controlled:

https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt...

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-optimus-robots-bartend...

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

#56

I'd love to own one of these! It could fold my laundry while I'm busy working from home as a teleoperator for Weave Robots.

They charge you for the privilege of folding your own laundry. Brilliant.

But you would also be getting paid. Literally arbitrage laundering.

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

#57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

They can always sell them to SpaceX, those guys have lots of money.

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

#58
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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?

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the way it peeks over the couch in the landing page video :'D

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

#59
post #52

I find it very suspicious that the laundry folding segment of the video has awkward cuts of the interesting parts. Makes me question if it is actually capable of doing that

There are 2 complete folds in the Isaac 0 video around 0:40, but speeded up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KhImSR8GuCE

The about page claims 1000+ lbs of laundry folded every week.

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