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When comes to lower part it’s always bipedal (hard to balance) or wheels (low capabilities). Why no one makes 4-6 legs, insect like? That seems like an easier problem to solve while gives much better mobility.
Jokes aside does anybody else notice the eerie similarities with gray aliens?
> 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.
Given how incapable my robotic vacuums and lawnmowers have proven to be, even after several years of iterations, I’d almost prefer if it was all teleoperation and it would hopefully unlock a huge amount of additional tasks it could preform. This would essentially let me hire a human housekeeper at a global vs local wage which is very appealing.
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Tele-operation through a video feed(?) inside my home. Yeah that sounds pretty creepy
It'll be about a week before the first reported incident of some operator sending it into bathroom/bedroom while occupied to watch.
And so it begun.. Jokes aside does anybody else notice the eerie similarities with gray aliens?
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That strongly supports my point. What do you think $250 billion a year worldwide pays for? That's $30 per person per year .
It's $250 billion less that goes to the ultrarich, so that they can't purchase another $250 billion of assets.
So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place. What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision…
The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah. The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher. Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range. But it's essentially just a sprinkler. Ain't no one going to to pay the cost of a new BMW for a dishwasher. Same thing here for…
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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.
So the play here is obvious, use the teleoperation as training data for a more general purpose AI controller. You need that data to make a model in the first place. What doesn't make sense to me is the cost. Yes, $8000 is probably low for this robot but it's a reasonable price range for something like this. The AI credits though? I know vision LLMs are not cheap, they're not going to run something like Llama3.2vision…
The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah. The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher. Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median wage, you get something in the $50k to $100k range. But it's essentially just a sprinkler. Ain't no one going to to pay the cost of a new BMW for a dishwasher. Same thing here for…
Except most dishwashers aren't competing against people washing dishes by hand and making the hourly median wage, they're competing against other dishwashers