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Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Post by Schiendelman »

conductr wrote: post #380
Schiendelman wrote: post #366

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Your robotic vacuums and lawnmowers are at a much lower price point that can't afford to run an LBM or computer vision to learn how to do a good job. Because those tasks are too specialized, it's unlikely anyone would pay $8000 for one that did a great job, but the technology is totally there. The key is when the robot can use all the same tools you can, the generalist robot has a value high enough to pay for this te…

I’ve paid over $3000 for a lawnmower and over $1000 for a vacuum before. So I’m already halfway there and with a fraction of the benefits as a general device. I’d need more diligence but would certainly pay $8k on a mower that did a great job consistently. A service cost me $5000 per year so it has a reasonable break even if it’s built well. Robot mowers are pretty hands on, I’d almost rather just diy it. I feel like…

Of course there's a market, it's commercial, not residential: https://scytherobotics.com/

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Post by danpalmer »

smw wrote: post #286
danpalmer wrote: post #208

> Handles loaded hampers What does it mean "handles"? It doesn't say it puts on a wash, but that's what I'd want. I can only assume they're vague because it doesn't do anything useful. > Makes beds A robot the height of a child makes a double bed with sheet, duvet, and pillows? I highly doubt it could reach. > Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed…

I'm not defending anything about this, but it does have a telescoping torso so it can get to 'human height' when needed.

But it can't lean and balance. Making a bed requires reaching potentially 1m across a surface that might also be 0.5m high. That requires balance, humans can bend and balance like that very naturally, but that's hard for a robot, and this doesn't look like it has the manoeuvrability to achieve it.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Post by danpalmer »

Dig1t wrote: post #213
danpalmer wrote: post #208

> Handles loaded hampers What does it mean "handles"? It doesn't say it puts on a wash, but that's what I'd want. I can only assume they're vague because it doesn't do anything useful. > Makes beds A robot the height of a child makes a double bed with sheet, duvet, and pillows? I highly doubt it could reach. > Isaac 1 is autonomous for Laundry Flow and Daily Reset by default, with teleoperation assistance when needed…

>What sort of insurance do they have for that person breaking something in your home? Probably just make the user accept a license agreement saying they accept the risk? I suspect most people would accept the risk something might get broken if it means they no longer need to clean their house.

The competition here is hiring a cleaner. Cleaners are insured. And it's even more than that, it only does a very few jobs, so we're talking a total of <5m of human time per day that it currently automates.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

troglodytetrain wrote: post #344
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #333

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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

so just a quick counterpoint ---> I played around with qwen 2.5 4B recently locally. An older model and a tiny model. Tested this model with optimized harness and it was good enough that it was able to complete (sometimes) a full job application flow for given json user data. All that to say, I think that there is a strong possibility that we will even just with llm tech, develop it enough that local efficient models…

That's great but there's a huge difference between a llm and a robot doing chores in your house

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Post by stubish »

imtringued wrote: post #221
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$450 USD / month to have a human turn up every day? $15 USD per day, including weekends? Around here you might just about get the minimum of 1 hour/day for 10 times that. This will be life changing for the elderly and disabled if they can pull it off. If you have socialized care, the government would even probably pay since it will be cheaper than aged care facilities.

Why does the human have to turn up every day? You're the one who added that requirement. That's on you. The moment you reduce it down to 10 visits per month you're already at $45 per visit. Let's say 6 visits to different people per day and since there are 21 working days per month on average that is 21/10*6*$450 = $5785 or $70k in revenue per year. You can't tell me that this wouldn't pay for an employee that doesn'…

Yes, like most things you can certainly get a cheaper service that provides less. As you say, the price is merely competitive if you only make use of the service twice a week. But for anyone who needs daily service, such as in-home aged care or disabled support, it is a bargain.

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Post by stubish »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #214
stubish wrote: post #188

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I think that is backwards. If you are replacing full time staff you need a system that works just as fast for the same or less money. For home use, you don't care if it takes 3 hours to make your bed or just stops for a while when waiting for a teleoperator to become available.

> For home use, you don't care if it takes 3 hours to make your bed or just stops for a while when waiting for a teleoperator to become available. But why would you pay thousands and store a clunky machine in your home for that? Either you don't care about the bed being made or not -- in which case just don't, its not essential -- or you'd have it made already in 30-60 seconds when you got up before you could even ge…

My parents spend a huge chunk of their day doing their laundry and soon won't even be able to handle that. Age sucks. Being disabled sucks too. Lots of tasks people think are trivial are mountains to climb.

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Post by conductr »

Schiendelman wrote: post #381
conductr wrote: post #380

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I’ve paid over $3000 for a lawnmower and over $1000 for a vacuum before. So I’m already halfway there and with a fraction of the benefits as a general device. I’d need more diligence but would certainly pay $8k on a mower that did a great job consistently. A service cost me $5000 per year so it has a reasonable break even if it’s built well. Robot mowers are pretty hands on, I’d almost rather just diy it. I feel like…

Of course there's a market, it's commercial, not residential: https://scytherobotics.com/

Interesting. I'm curious if you've seen this in operation and can vouch that it actually performs exceptionally better than residential products? I ask because the marketing claims all sound very similar; vision based object avoidance, mapping, and so on. So, I am skeptical this actual does anything much better besides the mow quality itself. It looks like this is good for large mostly open spaces and it basically knocks that out while the minimal lawn crew focuses on the trimming, edges, and cleanup. All to say, it looks bigger not better from a tech perspective. I still see the value for a commercial crew.

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Post by conductr »

ceejayoz wrote: post #375
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How is it any more dystopian than any other offshoring that exist primarily as labor arbitrage? My in-laws have a full time live in housekeeper that costs $500 per month. And where she’s from, this is a huge opportunity that she went to “maid school” for and many consider excellent compensation. She’s able to send this money home and provides for many family members and has amassed a bit of a real estate empire back…

> make the same income… Yeah, that's not the goal of these things.

I'm not sure I'm understanding your opaque comment correctly. But I'm assuming you saying the goal is to crush the already lowest levels of labor wages around the world? Because nobody's building this with the express intention of putting pressure on already low wages. They're building it because if they can make that labor productive and in demand, put it to work, they can monetize it. Labor rates may actually increase. Operating these things may be a specialty of its own with levels of skill. Then it's an economy of it's own and some of the demand may move to where the now-lower labor is in the future.

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Post by fragmede »

rightbyte wrote: post #250
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We can't even get to a washing machine that's also the dryer though. If it seems hard to get people to adopt even that new technology, then clothes folding is never gonna happen.

That is becouse those wash and drying machines are bad at drying the cloths.

If manufacturers are selling a defective product, that's on them. What I'm pointing out that the history of technological advancement isn't smooth.

Re: Weave Robotics launches Isaac 1, a $7,999 home robot with Fall 2026 deliveries

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Post by fragmede »

mikeyouse wrote: post #53
fragmede wrote: post #43

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I mean, it's entirely possible that Elon Musk is lying about the whole humanoid Tesla robot thing and it's a total utter scam and that everything online is just cgi, but let's pretend he's not that much of a scam artist.

Not CGI - just human-controlled: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt... https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-optimus-robots-bartend...

Even if they're human controlled, the robots still need to exist to be human controlled.
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