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Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by sandworm101 »

yalogin wrote: post #47

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

And we are being conditioned to think chores like getting drinks and putting the dishes away are beneath us. It is up there with motion- or voice-activated room lights. Want a robot to bring you coffee in bed each morning? Unless you are in a wheelchair, put the coffee machine on a timer and walk to the kitchen you lazy piece of ...

Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one of these robots should have to do a few weeks of army basic training before earning the right to be this lazy. (Actuallty, iirc, we didnt wash our own sheets. But we did make our own toast!)

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by geetee »

gacgacgac wrote: post #40
elil17 wrote: post #29

It is good to see someone finally working on one of these without the stupid legs (I think the legs are stupid because they give your robot the chance to fall over and are not relevant for most environments).

Do you have stairs in your house?

I am protected

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by ericd »

yalogin wrote: post #47

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

Well yeah, if it can do most of the household chores and lasts a decade, it’s totally worth as much as a car to many people.

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by IshKebab »

01100011 wrote: post #30
trumpdong wrote: post #6

There is no good reason to have a humanoid robot. None. Dishwashers do best in a dishwasher shape.

A couple weeks ago I saw a proud post by a humanoid robot CEO showing off how well his robots could sort objects on an assembly line. It was painful to watch. It's like he's never seen a real industrial sorting system in his life. Vision algos from 30 years ago along with simple mechanics or puffs of air were doing it 100x faster back then. I'm not convinced there is a bubble in AI, but there's definitely one in huma…

Yeah but the idea is that you can have a generalist robot that can do many different assembly line tasks.

There are plenty of manufacturing tasks that are still done by humans because it's too much hassle to make a dedicated robot to do it. Even on high volume car manufacturing it's very common to have human steps.

Sorting is just where they've got to so far; not the final destination.

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by snek_case »

sandworm101 wrote: post #51
yalogin wrote: post #47

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

And we are being conditioned to think chores like getting drinks and putting the dishes away are beneath us. It is up there with motion- or voice-activated room lights. Want a robot to bring you coffee in bed each morning? Unless you are in a wheelchair, put the coffee machine on a timer and walk to the kitchen you lazy piece of ... Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one…

I agree there's a path where this encourages people to be even more sedentary and lazy. On the other hand, if I cook every meal and clean up after, plus take care of home cleaning, I could easily spend 3 hours a day on a variety of home tasks. A robot could potentially prepare better quality meals from fresh ingredients and save me 3 hours a day. It could also fix holes in my clothes and do other tasks I'm just not motivated enough to do. So the way to think about it is like you just gained a huge amount of energy and free time to do things you weren't doing before.

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by netrap »

yalogin wrote: post #47

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by sandworm101 »

netrap wrote: post #57
yalogin wrote: post #47

We are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

No. A car empowers me to do things i cannot do myself. That is very different than taking on mundane tasks to free up more time for more minecraft.

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by nearlyepic »

letmevoteplease wrote: post #42
nearlyepic wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have a house with small kids and you want a 600 pound autonomous robot walking around? These aren’t funny tech products, they’re industrial equipment.

Figure 03 is 134 pounds. 1x NEO (the only one really designed for household usage) is 66 pounds. Unitree R1 is 55 pounds. None of these are ready for real work yet but probably at some point in the future we will have practical humanoids.

All of these are more than enough weight to kill a toddler by falling on them. That, of course, ignores all the other hazards presented by (presumably) titanium limbs attached to actuators able to exert enough force to crush any extremity you care to name.

The first person who has their child injured by one of these things will have a hell of a lawsuit on their hands.

Re: Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

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Post by dchftcs »

sandworm101 wrote: post #58
netrap wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?

No. A car empowers me to do things i cannot do myself. That is very different than taking on mundane tasks to free up more time for more minecraft.

Or kids. Or work.
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