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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 #387
Schiendelman wrote: post #381

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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 kn…

I don't know a thing about it other than that it and others like it exist in the market today. My point is only that there's no market for a residential buyer of a $20,000 mower.

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

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Post by cma »

Schiendelman wrote: post #369
cma wrote: post #300

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It doesn't need to have a sleeping surface or stay sprawled out when it isn't in use. It could bunch up into a little ball and fit in the corner of your ceiling. And it doesn't need to be the size of an adult to do most household stuff, some of the unitree ones are really short in stature, a foldable step stool for reaching upper cabinets or changing lightbulbs is probably enough. A bigger issue is whether it can rea…

The ones with wheels are going to trip over everything. The moment a company has enough functional use cases for one of these that it's not limited to one floor of your house, that version will be bipedal and not trip.

By bunch up in a ball I just mean assume the fetal position when powered off, not wheels. They wouldn't have to take up more space in house than a large piece of travel luggage on a shelf.

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

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Post by mikeyouse »

fragmede wrote: post #390
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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.

Sure but it’s like self driving vs piloted cars.. both are impressive in their own way but if someone proposes to sell 10 billion humanoid robots like Musk has, they obviously can’t be human-controlled.

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

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Post by energy123 »

conductr wrote: post #388
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> 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 incre…

Good points. It can match willing buyers and sellers of basic household labor that couldn't have happened previously due to economic frictions resulting from distance. This can increase the size of the pie for everyone.

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

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Post by Schiendelman »

cma wrote: post #392
Schiendelman wrote: post #369

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The ones with wheels are going to trip over everything. The moment a company has enough functional use cases for one of these that it's not limited to one floor of your house, that version will be bipedal and not trip.

By bunch up in a ball I just mean assume the fetal position when powered off, not wheels. They wouldn't have to take up more space in house than a large piece of travel luggage on a shelf.

Honestly I think it would be pretty cool to have a giant spider robot climb up to a ceiling corner and perch there. Also horrifying. :)

I like your idea. I think anything like this that can move itself can be stored up high, too.

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

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Post by oneneptune »

bonestamp2 wrote: post #174
altmanaltman wrote: post #172

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Except these ai fucks are trying to put cameras on all such labor to train future world models and businesses are okay with it since they get paid for doing nothing extra. So yeah they can manage stairs but they might also be recording everything they do

Use an independent cleaner. My cleaning lady is a great cleaner, but she can barely manage her cellphone, so she's not training AIs.

All the independent cleaner's I could find wanted $400 a week to clean. I've tried 2 different cleaners and fired them both after 4 weeks. They only spend about ~3 hours here a week, so I'm paying over $130/hr... and they didn't even do that great of a job. I guess I should try a third? This robot is tempting though.

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

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Post by 4d4m »

Schiendelman wrote: post #368
culi wrote: post #187

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If I'm gonna be an early adopter and give them such valuable training data, they should at least give me stock options

I think they're giving you the robot at half price.

I agree - the purchase price barely clears BOM before assembly. But I like that they're not really overpromising much, the use-cases are pretty narrow still.

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

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Post by keeganpoppen »

scrtm wrote: post #204
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You have a certain number of hours remaining on earth, and that number goes down forever until it reaches zero. Get on the cross about... doing laundry, I guess? All you want but it's not crazy to want to maximize the amount of time you get to spend with novel, meaningful experience and minimize the amount of time you spend shuffling piles of clothing from one place to another over and over among the dozens of other…

sometimes the mundane chores give me time to decompress and reflect on the novel and meaningful experiences

yeah, cool: "sometimes when i feel hungry it makes just makes me more grateful for food"... like, seriously? come off it... what a fucking stunting-qua-realitas stance
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