Could work well in vacation rentals where items in the house are well defined with very specific put back places.
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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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…
Yes but I trust the middle aged lady trying to make an honest living than what will likely be an Actually Indian from halfway across the world peeking into my home in a room full of other Indian's gossiping about the customers standards of living. If you don't care that Mr. Joy likes to teleoperate the bot especially while the wife and teenage daughter are active around the house then go for it.
Honestly the Indian worker teleoperating the robot is probably also just a middle aged lady trying to make an honest living.
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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.
Nah. At least with Uber the driver has self-preservation as an incentive to not just fuck around. What incentive would a freelance nobody have to not do the funniest shit possible inside a stranger's home at least once.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
really? you cannot _fathom_ the idea of paying for a robot to do something you, yourself are already capable of doing? someone should tell all these car manufacturers and the like that their cost-benefit analyses of using robots for work humans can do are completely off!
I do have a car, but I wouldn't pay for a robot to pick me up, carry me to the car and then chauffeur me around, unless I was physically disabled. Buying a machine to do difficult, complex, or strenuous work is one thing. Buying a machine to load and operate the other machine seems... different.
You have a certain number of hours remaining on earth, and that number goes down forever until it reaches zero.
Get on the cross about... doing laundry, I guess? All you want but it's not crazy to want to maximize the amount of time you get to spend with novel, meaningful experience and minimize the amount of time you spend shuffling piles of clothing from one place to another over and over among the dozens of other mundane chores.
If you have the money, why not?
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#155HN seems really, really negative this week for some reason (it maybe it's just me).
This seems cool, even if it's really just teleoperated.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#156So 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…
The world of computer vision is much bigger than multimodal LLMs. You'd run an ensemble of specialized models for 3d mapping, object classification, path validation, and so on. On a raspberry pi 5 8gb you can run what you need to self drive an RC car on an obstacle track at 10 FPS.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#157HN seems really, really negative this week for some reason (it maybe it's just me). This seems cool, even if it's really just teleoperated.
Selling tele-operated robots in the hopes you get AI valuation is borderline scam IMO.
This is hiring a human worker with extra steps, worse cost benefit and in a dehumanising manner.
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Unless I was physically disabled, elderly, or otherwise unable to do my own laundry, I couldn't even fathom paying a robot (or a maid) to do it. I can maybe understand it if you don't have a clothes washer, and had to wash your clothes manually in the sink or tub or something, but with a washing machine, the machine is already doing 95% of the work! The rest is not difficult or time-consuming. Laundry isn't heavy, an…
really? you cannot _fathom_ the idea of paying for a robot to do something you, yourself are already capable of doing? someone should tell all these car manufacturers and the like that their cost-benefit analyses of using robots for work humans can do are completely off!
They're talking about a household chore and your post compares to an industrial production line. It's not like the Ford executives can walk into the laundry and assemble F-150s.
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Yeah this piece of marketing got me: > Made to fit in every home, including yours. Unless that home has stairs
I have a startup idea: I will make the robot that ferries your laundry robot up and down the stairs.
Not a bad idea, just a cog track that the robot grabs onto. I'd install one.
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#160They’ve had two of the Isaac 0 bots at the laundromat down the street from me for months. I’ve been impressed watching them evolve.