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I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking (after seeing another company selling a pop-up button for $8) that here is a company that is actually making shit —

I was thinking the opposite. I was thinking (after seeing another company selling a pop-up button for $8) that here is a company that is actually making shit — and constantly (perhaps slowly) making it better. From dog to human. And, as I understand it, from hydraulic to electric. Looking in particular at video #3, I get a sense that there has had to be a lot of very expensive iteration to get to something that has nearly exactly the degree of motion of a human. Maybe the problem with the videos is that we have come to expect this as "normal" and no longer viral. Now, that's kind of a wild thought. But to your question about when they will be deployable — I would hazard to guess that cost is the issue. If these came down a few orders of magnitude in cost I suspect we will start seeing them deployed.

whizzter 2y ago
And that's the part that makes me wonder if BD will ever "make it", starting 20 years ago they probably had to make quite specialized algorithms with a ton of hardcoding to make their robots work (and it was impressive then). Just starting 15, 10 or even 5 years ago neural networks have been acing these kinds of "balancing" problems in other areas but with an entirely different architecture. In 2025 with the rapid expansion of other "AI" fields, I would expect a robot to weld a scaffold from loose parts and THEN cartwheel off it, go to a human handler and pick up an rifle and then hit a target 100 meters away (or similarly "different" task from the welding to show versatility).