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Scale this up a bit and I could see it working as an urban courier. Cool format.
What are the advantages to this compared to something more stable like 3 or 4 wheels that can’t just fall over?
Cool! Does anyone have a list of challenges that must be tackled before such humanoid robots become usable for tasks such as household chores, cooking etc?
one of the major limitations is the capability (of currently any computer system really) handling the uncertainties that occur in the real world. there is some interesting work done in the area of human-machine co-habitation that deals with safety issues (as in physical safety for both humans and the machines sharing the same space) and strategies to react to unforeseen events. handling the general messy, noisy real…
Been seeing these for twenty years
An independently produced video, of such a robot, that would be amazing. Truly
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IIUC dexterity is gonna be the bottleneck. There was actually a post on here a few months back where someone claiming robotics expertise posted exactly what you asked for: a list of things they didn't think robots were close to being able to do. IIRC the list included folding textiles, and soon after a video was released of a robot folding textiles, but it was very janky, it's not clear to me if it proved the origina…
Hate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.
Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry.
(But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be accessed from inside the house)
(Also... I just realised, if there were robots that could do laundry, but couldn't navigate to my basement, I would move. I think laundry bots would genuinely be that desirable)
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Hate to say it, but I suspect people who can't afford their own laundry might be well down the list of potential customers in all this.
Trust me, plenty of millionaires are doing their laundry in a shared Waschküche in Zürich! Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry. (But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be acces…
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Trust me, plenty of millionaires are doing their laundry in a shared Waschküche in Zürich! Current Chinese dev bots cost like $15k. Vapourware startups are claiming they'll ship their humanoid robot product at $20k. I'd pay that in a heartbeat for robot that could actually do my laundry. (But more impactfully surely there are loads of Californians with a utility room in their garage, or a basement that can't be acces…
Maybe, but I was thinking the next bracket or two up. I'm sure things will trickle down though.
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Maybe, but I was thinking the next bracket or two up. I'm sure things will trickle down though.
Don't think those people need robots? I don't think the next bracket up from me does their own laundry today.