For the people complaining about human operators: Stop bitching! It will be just like us vibe-coding on multi monitors. This is the future of work.
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
#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots. $7,999 a clanker. I can totally imagine hordes of poor people driving around in turret-equipped F-150s packed with robots in evil facemasks. - Hey, bankster, hands upon the fucking wall!
I’m not sure you understand the comment
Upon re-reading it, yes, I apologize, got it wrong. An army of poor people remotely controlling an army of robots already implanted into rich houses would be fun.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#293So much of housing in my area is high density now taking the form of row housing with multiple levels. Other homes have laundry in the basement, bedrooms on a second level. Sadly Isaac isn't going to be as useful if you have stairs.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#294> 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.
Every single one of these robot plays are going to try pivot to having someone do you laundry remotely for a dollar a day. If they ever get the tech down (I doubt it), they will then try move to broader labour replacement. This is why all the robots need to be humanoid.
Curious why you feel they won’t get the tech down? I think these products are all data plays right now.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#295While I find robots cool they just don't literally "fit" in an average flat or house I lived in majority of my life. In order to squeeze one more member into your average household the lil thing needs to justify refurbishing the entire place so it can actually operate there without being a nuisance. Reminds of how my relative spent quite a bit of time making sure an old house being renovated was flat enough so automatic vacuum cleaner could traverse room to room without getting stuck. A humanoid robot is larger still. I can see them being adopted by businesses first though.
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
The math doesn't math. You could tax all the ultra rich people at 100% and it wouldn't significantly change the social contract. The part people don't like hearing is that it's a lot of the middle class that has to pay much higher taxes if you want those guarantees of minimum living standards.
Citation needed. Here is one for the contrary (just a book review. The citation is the book). https://cleantechnica.com/2026/04/06/we-need-to-tax-billiona...
That strongly supports my point. What do you think $250 billion a year worldwide pays for? That's $30 per person per year.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
The clothes folding is almost certainly a person. This sort of menial task would likely be given to someone in a poorer part of the world, who ironically will be some of the first to master the first generation of remotely operated high tech robots. The revolution against the rich will be led by poor precariats armed with robots.
I feel like this is the sort of thing William Gibson should write...
There's a pretty good 2008 Mexican scifi film "sleep dealer" that covers this topic more or less
Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#298> with teleoperation assistance Privacy nightmare. Bunch of random, low-paid operators looking around inside my home. No thanks!
It is not really much different than paying for cleaning, the cleaning person also sees inside of house.
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#299Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every single one of these robot plays are going to try pivot to having someone do you laundry remotely for a dollar a day. If they ever get the tech down (I doubt it), they will then try move to broader labour replacement. This is why all the robots need to be humanoid.
Curious why you feel they won’t get the tech down? I think these products are all data plays right now.
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Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries
#300While I find robots cool they just don't literally "fit" in an average flat or house I lived in majority of my life. In order to squeeze one more member into your average household the lil thing needs to justify refurbishing the entire place so it can actually operate there without being a nuisance. Reminds of how my relative spent quite a bit of time making sure an old house being renovated was flat enough so automa…
It doesn't need to have a sleeping surface or stay sprawled out when it isn't in use. It could bunch up into a little ball and fit in the corner of your ceiling. And it doesn't need to be the size of an adult to do most household stuff, some of the unitree ones are really short in stature, a foldable step stool for reaching upper cabinets or changing lightbulbs is probably enough.
A bigger issue is whether it can really be as safe, not trip over wires, throw the baby in the trashcan, start a fire trying to make a cup of coffee and that kind of thing. Beyond accidents, lots of companies are talking about hooking these up to LLMs for planning that have horror movies in their training sets.