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pretty sure we've already had products in the market that can do the things you are thinking of, the problem with products like baxter (or boston dynamics produ
by jppope 1y ago
pretty sure we've already had products in the market that can do the things you are thinking of, the problem with products like baxter (or boston dynamics products) wasn't/isn't the capabilities it was/is the price point. the unit economics for robotics have always been the problem. Sure you can buy a robot for $45K but you can have a hell of a whole lot of days of cleaning with a cleaning service for that same money... the downstream effect of this is that it is very hard to get economies of scale so they never drop to the point where these things are normalized.
- mattlondon 1y agoYou can already buy one from unitree for USD16k. Full time care for the elderly is epically expensive. As the capabilities of humanoid robots grow, the demand and so the supply will increase.