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"Is Isaac 1 teleoperated? Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee we complete tasks." Offline and autonomous or never in my house.
Completely offline will literally never happen at least not in any sort of off-the-shelf consumer product maybe in some sort of niche projects down the line
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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.
Annoying when you play games, likely expensive when the robot keeps breaking things.
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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.
The robot has a two pronged gripper. I wonder what teleoperating that to do complex tasks would be like.
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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.
That's not really how that works. Almost all of that money is tied up in operating businesses. Most very rich people mostly hold investments in stock - and generally at large companies. That's debt, not an asset I think the way you're thinking of. Overall, taking that money out of market holdings reduces the value of those holdings, for everyone else as well. You really end up lowering the retirement savings value of everyone who has a retirement plan by some amount.
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I watched the promo video somewhere and when folding the blanket, the video cuts and edits were very suspicious. I doubt it can fold a blanket at all.
They do show it folding shirts, which I'd think are harder than blankets. Is your doubt caused by blankets being bigger than shirts? (I didn't see it folding a button-up shirt, only tee-shirts. That's an extra degree of difficult and I do doubt that it can do that.)
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The robot has a two pronged gripper. I wonder what teleoperating that to do complex tasks would be like.
IMO, hard part is likely the lack of haptic feedback, not that it's just a simple gripper. Small and big feedback, so you don't break eggs (not accidentally at least), and also don't pick up a heavy load that makes the robot topple over and give the remote operator motion sickness in the process. There's a surprising number of labour simulators sold as VR headset games: https://skyhookgames.com/lawn-mowing-simulator-…
It would be great if the operator could say things like, in above example, “you forgot to close the door, make sure you never leave this door open, even if you have to open it for a task and it’s not explicitly said you should always imply the door needs to be closed after the task. As a general rule, the door should never be open longer than 1 minute longer than it needs to be for task performance” or something similar and this trains the model over time.
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Completely offline will literally never happen at least not in any sort of off-the-shelf consumer product maybe in some sort of niche projects down the line
I’d disagree with this. As local models and compute improve, I can definitely see something like this becoming doable offline in the next decades. In the meantime, at the very least, I would never use something like this unless I could bring my own API/cloud provider so that my data isn’t being handled by the vendor. Also teleoperation is a huge no go for me.
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I’d disagree with this. As local models and compute improve, I can definitely see something like this becoming doable offline in the next decades. In the meantime, at the very least, I would never use something like this unless I could bring my own API/cloud provider so that my data isn’t being handled by the vendor. Also teleoperation is a huge no go for me.
I get that the voice interface probably uses an LLM but surely the rest of the device isn’t based on LLM tech?
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Look, I mean, would you really object to a human cleaner showing up every day and putting away your laundry? If the answer is "no" then what's the difference if the human cleaner is not physically present but instead teleoperating a robot? I mean at least the robot won't ever need to use the loo. I'm a bit fastidious like that but I don't like it when strangers sit on my loo. (Friends too. Why can't we have a robotic…
Generally when people have a house cleaner they know who it is and have some form of relationship with them that establishes a baseline of trust. That would not exist here.
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Curious why you feel they won’t get the tech down? I think these products are all data plays right now.
Manipulating soft bodies is exceptionally difficult to do with robotics. moving a soft object from a to b is doable, folding/separating/sorting at any kind of speed is very much an area of active research.