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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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Post by solid_fuel »

goobatrooba wrote: post #199
solid_fuel wrote: post #47

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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…

I agree on the rest but don't see why it would be heavier. If you have more feet standing at any particular moment the load would be more distributed, i.e. movement should be easier with more legs (depending on leg weight of course).

You're confusing (pressure on the ground / surface area) with overall weight (the sum of all pressure on the ground). Having more legs is heavier simply because now you have additional struts and motors that you didn't before, those items are linear with the number of legs, and the total weight is weight_of_leg x num_legs.

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

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Post by jonplackett »

utopiah wrote: post #238

/me gets tempted then looks at his Roomba gathering dust, on itself, for years now. It's great in theory. I hate chores... but those things don't work. They work-ish in some ideal cases but a house, even a sorted one, is a mess. You have cables, clothes on the floor, etc. Cleaning up is a menial task but it's not a trivial one, both mechanically and cognitively speaking. It won't work.

Bearing in mind even competent human cleaners often do a mediocre job tidying up I cannot possibly see how this robot could even begin to be useful.

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

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Post by 21asdffdsa12 »

utopiah wrote: post #238

/me gets tempted then looks at his Roomba gathering dust, on itself, for years now. It's great in theory. I hate chores... but those things don't work. They work-ish in some ideal cases but a house, even a sorted one, is a mess. You have cables, clothes on the floor, etc. Cleaning up is a menial task but it's not a trivial one, both mechanically and cognitively speaking. It won't work.

It would work, if they could simplify the problem space. Install rails on the ceiling and pic and place from there..

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

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Post by solid_fuel »

bensyverson wrote: post #51
solid_fuel wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

It's been done, I don't really know how the efficiency compares but I'm sure there's some research out there on it. The main issue I see though is that the advantage you get with 4+ legs is stability at slow speed - you can be stable on three legs while moving one, which makes precise movement easier.

With three legs, as soon as you pick one up you will start to fall over, so you either need legs with enough freedom of movement to shift the center of mass of the robot back to offset the lack of support, or some other way to shift the center of mass.

You have to balance with two legs, as well, but there isn't a transition from "stable" to "balancing" with every step - you're always actively balancing - which makes movement easier to plan.

Overall I suspect that tripedal locomotion isn't really any more efficient than bipedal movement, and it might even be less stable.

Just one example: https://spectrum.ieee.org/martian-inspired-tripod-walking-ro...

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Post by jonplackett »

$8000 up front + $100 a month

Assuming it lasts maybe 4 years that’s $61 a week.

So you could just hire a human cleaner to come once a week and have them do a way better job.

Or if you prefer to compare to the subscription price of $450 a month you can now have your human cleaner come twice a week

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

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Post by solid_fuel »

foxylad wrote: post #178
solid_fuel wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Conversely one leg would be cheaper and lighter. I look forward to welcoming our hopping robot overlords!

It's been done! https://spectrum.ieee.org/jumping-robot-salto1p

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

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Post by pj_mukh »

grumbelbart2 wrote: post #240
pj_mukh wrote: post #237

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Do I care? The job gets done and I don’t have to bother with letting someone physically into my home. As a parent this seems godsent if it works as advertised just for its overnight reset. Now if they can’t make the autonomy work to maintain the economics then I’d need an exit clause but other than that, have at it boss.

The risk is that this does not scale, they run out of money, the robot won't work any more, and you payed a lot for nothing.

Yea I would hope for sustainable teleop unit economics and then VC money for autonomy.

But I don’t need high percentage autonomy out of the box was my point.

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

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Post by pj_mukh »

jonplackett wrote: post #245

$8000 up front + $100 a month Assuming it lasts maybe 4 years that’s $61 a week. So you could just hire a human cleaner to come once a week and have them do a way better job. Or if you prefer to compare to the subscription price of $450 a month you can now have your human cleaner come twice a week

Except this is a daily/nightly service?

Atleast in my home, it’s the daily cleanup that’s operationally grating with babies and toddlers. The weekly/monthly deep cleans are downright fun.

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

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Post by rightbyte »

fragmede wrote: post #209
ezconnect wrote: post #207

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The washing machine is the one that needs redesign to incorporate folding.

We can't even get to a washing machine that's also the dryer though. If it seems hard to get people to adopt even that new technology, then clothes folding is never gonna happen.

That is becouse those wash and drying machines are bad at drying the cloths.
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