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streaming robots doing stuff... seems a big entertainment area in future. I could see a company that rents out 'teams' of robots/drones or whatever to subscribe
by abledon 11y ago
streaming robots doing stuff... seems a big entertainment area in future. I could see a company that rents out 'teams' of robots/drones or whatever to subscriber groups and then these groups 'duke it out' or participate in whatever other contest remotely. The actual dangerous physical elements happening in some remote desert/warehouse and being streamed to the users/controllers.
- mikepurvis 11y agoThere's a group in Waterloo called LabForge who set up actual physical lab experiments for undergrads to interact with over the internet. I think they may have pivoted since then, but there's a demo of it on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uveI-8BrZ4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uveI-8BrZ4 I'm with a robotics company, and we've also periodically toyed with setting up "robot playpen" where you could log in, pay by the hour, and run your algorithms or whatever on actual hardware. The reality is, though, that for a lot of the interesting problems in robotics (perception, mapping, localization), a recorded dataset is more than enough, and for the rest (controls, guidance), a sufficiently high-fidelity simulation is better for development anyway. By the time you've made all those software investments, you probably own hardware anyway, so the total market for an "AWS of robots" is probably not really all that large.