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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 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…

8k is cheap if laundry is fully offloaded but will a regular consumer spend 8k on a device that is not proven? I guess there is a subset of consumers that this automatically targets/caters to.

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

#73
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Are these the same guys that were trashing airbnbs testing the robots?

No, that was The Bot Company [1][2].

[1] https://sfstandard.com/2026/05/28/sf-startup-secretly-testin...

[2] https://www.bot.co/

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

#74

> 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. Does that mean some random human looking at my dirty laundry in the middle of my home, the most intimate place in existence for me? No thank you.

Understandable reaction. That being said, thousands of people already pay for the privilege of inviting an actual human into their home every week to clean. For those people, that doesn’t seem likely to be a hurdle.

Personally, I’d probably be willing to stomach a teleoperator but what I would not be comfortable with is the company retaining images, video, and other telemetry from my condo on their servers for who knows how long.

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

#75

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…

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

#76

> 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. Does that mean some random human looking at my dirty laundry in the middle of my home, the most intimate place in existence for me? No thank you.

Understandable reaction. That being said, thousands of people already pay for the privilege of inviting an actual human into their home every week to clean. For those people, that doesn’t seem likely to be a hurdle. Personally, I’d probably be willing to stomach a teleoperator but what I would not be comfortable with is the company retaining images, video, and other telemetry from my condo on their servers for who kn…

That invited stranger is probably not recording footage that will be stored for all time. There were leaks about how Tesla employees were sharing images/videos of customers.

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

#77
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.

Tele-operation through a video feed(?) inside my home. Yeah that sounds pretty creepy

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

#78
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Can't wait for the Uber version, where anyone with five minutes to spare can fold your laundry from their home.

Holy dystopian shit, you might be right. This might just be their new favorite answer when people ask what are all the jobless humans to do after the AI takeover? This... live in squalor, hooked up to VR headsets and doing menial work remotely for the oligarch class, while the AI learns the last few non-automated tasks from them. It's a theme I've seen in many movies over the years.
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