Reminds me of the Anki Cozmo Robot so I’m curious how they will try to be successful where Anki failed.
Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
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Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#32Could we rather get a link to the original blog post? https://huggingface.co/blog/reachy-mini
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#33Nothing in the article, the video, or the manufacturer's own blog post explains what this thing actually does. Seriously. This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece.
As far as I can infer, the thing's basically a smart speaker which rotates.
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#34There is a Black Mirror episode about a robot doll!
Aren't there a couple of episodes like that? Are you referring to the episode with Miley Cyrus?
The others I'm thinking of are the plush bear that contains a AI copy of a human mind, and the killer robot dogs.
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#35"could disrupt" with what? Cute voice and wiggling antennas?
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#36The robot mostly looks like a very basic alternative to the Lego robotics offerings (mindstorms/technic/spike). And, they are in more or less the same price range as well Not sure what huggingface is going for here. Seems like a big distraction for the company
I am not sure what HF is going for here either, because it doesn't actually do anything; yet?
I mean, great: I have another $300 toy in the makerspace arena that I can program. Awesome; I write code and am heavily invested personally and professionally with LLMs (open-weight models running on local GPUs as well as LLM chatbots that everyone knows, like Gemini, OpenAI, and Claude). Now what? It'll sit on my desk and maybe gather dust, if it's not dancing, because...it doesn't actually have a point or built in capabilities out of the gate--at least not that I can see--aside from looking cute and dancing according to the video in the press-release-article; all things that any $30 toy on Amazon can already do.
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#37I read a lot of words, incl. collaborate, love, whatever.
But what does the robot do exactly?
I can collaborate perfectly well with LLMs, no need for a physical robot to do just that.
I am genuinely lost about this product.
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#38This isn't the single most hyperbolic headline I've ever seen, but I hope it's the most wildly unrealistic headline I see today. 50/50 odds.
Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#39Nothing in the article, the video, or the manufacturer's own blog post explains what this thing actually does . Seriously. This is an ephemeral marketing puff piece. As far as I can infer, the thing's basically a smart speaker which rotates.
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Re: Hugging Face just launched a $299 robot that could disrupt the robotics industry
#40Are we still using the word “disrupt” to describe unremarkable new products?
I thought we were over that.