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Austin company unveils humanoid robot
- simonmesmith 3y agoLooks like they posted this video a few days ago: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uJOA5IDaL5g https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uJOA5IDaL5g Video seems focused on moving boxes. Perhaps that’s the entry point for them in the market. This said, they also show the robot moving what look like very dexterous fingers.
- aniken 3y agoI am not familiar with the space, but is moving boxes from A to B even a real pain point for many businesses such that they’d get an ROI by buying something like this just for that sole purpose? It just seems like one of a hundred specialized location and company specific tasks an average warehouse worker needs to do, and they need to show robots doing something a little more specialized or compelling to make this anything other than lame video demo hype. What is their beach head market? Any insight appreciated!
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- znpy 3y agoYeah such content should be flagged on sight in my opinion
- causality0 3y agoThis thing hobbles around like an Asimo from twenty years ago. What sets it apart in a world where Boston Dynamics' robots dance better than I do?
- Mistletoe 3y agoI’ll save you guys the google. https://youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8 https://youtube.com/watch?v=UAG_FBZJVJ8 Pretty amazing moves.
- havnagiggle 3y agoI'm surprised Dark Mirror got it so wrong in their episode Metalhead. The killer robots should have been bourrée stepping in their chase. But on a more serious note, the robot olympics should be quite fun.
- ruslan 3y agoThere're some spits on the floor (2:00), is it oil leakage in hydrolic system of the bot? What bothers me most about Boston Dynamics is that they have no real competitor, not even a distant one, despite so much time has passed since their BigDog unveiled.
- skywal_l 3y agoTo have competition you need a market. What are these robots are going to do exactly? We already have robots replacing humans in almost any hard physical work. The rest of the physical work requires intellectual adaptability. Good luck having delivery robot for example, we can't even have cars that drives themselves. Don't get me wrong, these robots are cool (and scary) but I don't see a huge markets for them, at least in the medium term which is what investors are interested in. What happens in 20 years they couldn't care less.
- xwdv 3y agoNot sure why you’d use this bot to move boxes when a simple pack and pick delta bot exists. What a waste.
- avsteele 3y agoThere is no pricing or availability info in the article or the company's website. Pretty lame. Is this a real product or not? These days its hard to know if the video is even real or AI generated.
- mkl95 3y ago[Cannot be viewed in Europe] Also it's 7AM in Austin so not many Austinites will get to see it either :/
- matthewfcarlson 3y agoI’m in Austin and I only saw it because I got woken up unexpectedly.
- sanderjd 3y agoHonest question: Why are people still putting so much effort into making humanoid robots? I understand investment in robotics in general, I just find this particular little branch of that tree to be a bit mystifying. It seems to get a lot more investment than it seems to be worth, to me. Is there some reason to think "humanoid-ness" is a particularly useful property for robots to exhibit? Edit to add: Thanks for all the responses about how the world is already engineered for human-shaped things. That makes sense to me! And it wasn't really on my radar. Consider my thinking on this updated :)
- savrajsingh 3y agoThe world is designed around humans, so a humanoid bot can replace humans in all scenarios instead of many specialized bots. (Or so the thinking goes)
- dotancohen 3y agoMedia attention. You would have never heard of the company otherwise.
- Philpax 3y agoBeing able to operate in spaces designed for humans and being able to operate things designed for humans. You can have other form factors - and indeed we do in the vacuum robots - but they can't generally interact with the environment the same way we do.
- hotpotamus 3y agoThe reason I've been told is that the built world is made for humans. You gain access to places to work via vehicles, doors, and ladders, etc... that are made for humans.
- mpsprd 3y agoMu guesses: * A lot of engineering in low skill labor infrastructure is already designed around humans * More marketable to the mainstream * Less intimidating than a giant steel arm for other workers
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- tamimio 3y agoWebsite has nothing technical except the total weight (160lb) and battery life (4hrs), nothing else, rest just use cases and “let’s get in touch”, hard to tell how good/bad it is.
- freitzkriesler2 3y agoFor the folks who are outside the US, this robot is literally nothing new. Boston Dynamics and Honda's 90s robot are more impressive.
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- gremlinsinc 3y agowhen I think humanoid, I think something like the evolved robots from bicentennial man. When they basically resembled humans very well. Japan is leading here but probably mostly with sex dolls but those seem really life like, if so uncanny valley. Just because it walks on two feet and can do tasks isn't enough for me to consider it humanoid it needs to at least check off more boxes in resembling how a human looks, walks, and talks. Amica on those YouTube videos is much more humanoid than this thing.