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So outside of mounting a gun on it or doing basic industrial inspections it's really just a $74,500 toy right?
by devalgo 6y ago
So outside of mounting a gun on it or doing basic industrial inspections it's really just a $74,500 toy right?
- jefft255 6y agoFor researchers like me it’s an easy way to get a legged robot that just works for fairly cheap. One can then focus on perception/decision/control etc. without being a mechanical engineer.
- devalgo 6y agoWell they have $20,000+ addons for better Lidar range, on device compute etc. Doesn't seem all that cheap to do interesting things..
- jefft255 6y agoYou can always buy and mount the lidar yourself. It is cheap for a working legged robot of this quality. Others (anymal comes to mind) are much more than that.
- tlb 6y agoSo outside of organizing your recipe collection, this Apple ][ is just a $2000 toy, right? -- some pundit in 1977, probably
- devalgo 6y agoNot sure this take feels right but it doesn't really feel sufficient to say "this time is different" either. It's pretty easy to come up with dozens of military based use cases but really difficult to find commercial ones. Possible use cases for say delivery still rely on human drivers (in delivery vans) or tele-operators for example so it's not clear there's a business case for using them.
- tlb 6y agoSure. There's really no way to tell whether this time is different or not, other than watching what people figure out to do with it.
- 0xffff2 6y agoThis seems like the mother of all selection biases to me. Of course you remember the Apple ][ because it was one of the first products in what became a wildly successful market. How many flying car prototypes do you remember? There have been several, and a whole new batch of electric versions are being designed right now, but so far people have been quite rightly skeptical of that product for the last 70+ years.