As a house spouse I want this! I _hate_ folding laundry and always procrastinate on it. Doesn't even need to be able to load the machine like they additionally show, "just" folding it is enough for me!
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> Depending on the speed of all of this, we might get a lot poorer before we get abundance everyerwer not "might", will and it's a hell of a leap to assume massive abundance will follow -- for someone, perhaps, but not the average person
At some point it will be cheaper to give everyone bread instead of paying for your private military. But yeah lets see what going to happen.
But there's no feeling of power with giving everyone bread. Billionaires seem to have more than just an addiction to big numbers, maybe seem to want to rule over others.
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#303Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's also relevant that China isn't open sourcing results because that's something China will do forever on some philosophical grounds. They do it because it is currently in the best interests of the Chinese state (and the world, as it turns out, coincidentally) but as soon as that stops being true there is zero chance it'll continue to be open source.
Eh, I take what I can get. A lawyer doesn't argue that his client is innocent (though that might be tha case), because of some innate sense of justice, but because he gets to paid so.
Yes, this is the correct attitude. Fire is useful, but don't forget it burns you when you stop paying attention.
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Ha! You remind me of something I used to tell my colleagues back when I held a regular job. They would compliment me on my highly patterned shirts (eg. A very small floral pattern repeated). I would explain that a shirt like that just requires low spin in the washer, and then drying on a hanger. Whatever wrinkles are left are almost invisible due to the pattern. With collars and cuffs I’d just literally manually stre…
Sorry, but if you're buying clothes that have manual drying steps, it's gonna be a hard sale to the general public.
To be fair, I have quite a few of these, and they inevitable just get shuffled over to the dry cleaners.
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#305I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer? To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this . This is what robotics should be used for.
There tends to be a lot of low-key (and some not-so-low-key) anti-Chinese xenophobia on HN, so that's likely a big part of it too.
This is one of the most pro-china forums out there, what are you talking about
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#306feels like the American domestic manufacturing is done, there is no hope to save it.
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#307I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer? To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this . This is what robotics should be used for.
> You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? No, we don't. I wish we did, that would be amazing. There have been demos like this over a decade. But they are just that, demos. Demos done in a controlled environment. If there was a robot I could buy that could effectively fold laundry or do dishes, I would gladly drop 50-100k on it, but such a thing doesn't exist and likely won't for a long tim…
You would honestly pay 50-100k on a robot that just folds laundry or does your dishes? In the US you can get a maid that cleans once a week for $150-250 and would do a much better job. By the time that cost would equal this robot, the robot would be obsolete, not to mention any maintenance costs.
Also dishes are the easiest chore to do around the house, especially if you clean them after use instead of letting them pile up.
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#308I'm not sure why some comments here are so pessimistic. I was grinning ear to ear while seeing the video. You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? And the model is at least as free as beer? To quote the lyrics/meme, we used to pray for times like this . This is what robotics should be used for.
The singularity is literally here right now! Some people will never be happy! This is easily the most amazing thing I have seen in my life! These things will be taking care of and raising babies very soon!
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#309Watching the two-handed robot has me thinking that a third hand, perhaps with a different set of capabilities (like a tentacle grip) might make many tasks easier. I realise that more limbs = more problems, but even so, having additional ways to hold and turn things would be a big help.
tentacle grip.... giggidy giggigdy gooooo
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#310Earlier quoted context omitted.
> You're telling me we've finally got robots that can do our laundry? No, we don't. I wish we did, that would be amazing. There have been demos like this over a decade. But they are just that, demos. Demos done in a controlled environment. If there was a robot I could buy that could effectively fold laundry or do dishes, I would gladly drop 50-100k on it, but such a thing doesn't exist and likely won't for a long tim…
You would honestly pay 50-100k on a robot that just folds laundry or does your dishes? In the US you can get a maid that cleans once a week for $150-250 and would do a much better job. By the time that cost would equal this robot, the robot would be obsolete, not to mention any maintenance costs. Also dishes are the easiest chore to do around the house, especially if you clean them after use instead of letting them p…
I honestly think I would. I have a maid come every two weeks which is of course not often enough for dishes/laundry. A maid that only came weekly couldn't stay on top of dishes either but they could do laundry fine sure. I do a lot of cooking and I find constantly doing dishes and loading/unloading the dishwasher to be a huge never-ending pain. A device that costs 100k and would free of me that sisyphean task forever would be a godsend. Also you can have the robot work anytime whereas a maid is probably on a schedule.
And not to move the goal posts, because my original post did only mention laundry and dishes, but I assume once a robot reached a point where it could do laundry/dishes effectively without supervision, that it could do a variety of other tedious household tasks. 50-100k would be well worth it IMO.