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They did say it’s for commercial use. Probably for warehouses and such where sadly backflipping is not relevant

HarHarVeryFunny 3y ago
You'll know AGI has really arrived when we do have factory robots backflipping and doing stupid stuff to amuse themselves.
- geodel 3y ago
  I feel Robot Unions will have to make backflipping as part of collective bargain agreement.
  - kevindamm 3y ago
    What do we want?? BACKFLIPS. When do we want them? [backflips]
- coffeebeqn 3y ago
  And posting that to robot tiktok
jiminymcmoogley 3y ago
see what i find puzzling is that warehouses have flat floors right? so what benefit does the upfront cost of building something with a bunch of extra actuators for all the joints in 2 legs, and the ongoing running costs of far less mechanically efficient bipedal locomotion have over wheeled movement like their other robot, the Handle, offers? i should mention i know nothing about robots so i'm sure there must be a good reason for it, but this thought has been on my mind ever since I saw george hotz bring it up in the Comma Body reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ as a layperson, i feel like biomimicry only makes sense for hands and arms, at least for the vast majority of commercial use cases
- philwelch 3y ago
  Stairs.
- hanniabu 3y ago
  > warehouses have flat floors right "Flat"... with a bunch of cracks, joints, pallet chips, and other debris
- generuso 3y ago
  You are absolutely right. And this is reflected in the choice of robots deployed in warehouses. For example, Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of simple wheeled floor-jack like robots to move the shelves around [1], and they started doing this many years ago. Meanwhile, they have only a handful of humanoid robots, on experimental basis, trying to decide if they are useful [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14

You'll know AGI has really arrived when we do have factory robots backflipping and doing stupid stuff to amuse themselves.

geodel 3y ago
I feel Robot Unions will have to make backflipping as part of collective bargain agreement.
- kevindamm 3y ago
  What do we want?? BACKFLIPS. When do we want them? [backflips]
coffeebeqn 3y ago
And posting that to robot tiktok

jiminymcmoogley 3y ago

see what i find puzzling is that warehouses have flat floors right? so what benefit does the upfront cost of building something with a bunch of extra actuators for all the joints in 2 legs, and the ongoing running costs of far less mechanically efficient bipedal locomotion have over wheeled movement like their other robot, the Handle, offers? i should mention i know nothing about robots so i'm sure there must be a good reason for it, but this thought has been on my mind ever since I saw george hotz bring it up in the Comma Body reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dhvt0ZmqmGQ as a layperson, i feel like biomimicry only makes sense for hands and arms, at least for the vast majority of commercial use cases

philwelch 3y ago
Stairs.
hanniabu 3y ago
> warehouses have flat floors right "Flat"... with a bunch of cracks, joints, pallet chips, and other debris
generuso 3y ago
You are absolutely right. And this is reflected in the choice of robots deployed in warehouses. For example, Amazon uses hundreds of thousands of simple wheeled floor-jack like robots to move the shelves around [1], and they started doing this many years ago. Meanwhile, they have only a handful of humanoid robots, on experimental basis, trying to decide if they are useful [2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULswQgd73Tc [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8IdbodRG14