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I think the glossy 7min trailer has it about right: The first realistic deployments will be champagne holders at parties and robots at hotel receptions. Novelt
by sho_hn 1y ago
I think the glossy 7min trailer has it about right: The first realistic deployments will be champagne holders at parties and robots at hotel receptions. Novelty toys for the wealthy.
Commoditization and Walmart-level deployments at scale are still a few gens off.
- imtringued 1y agoRobot receptionists are a pretty good idea if it wasn't for the fact that their head design is pretty ugly.
- ACCount37 1y agoI'm willing to believe that. But we could do those "novelty deployments" with 80s tech - and we did. See: tech expos back then. The key difference between now and then isn't smaller actuators, cheaper sensors or denser power electronics. It's the AI breakthroughs. Doesn't need to be "at scale". Scale is a useful proxy though. But if you see two robots deployed to your average Walmart, and doing a good enough job there to cut the staff in half? Doesn't matter that it's just two robots at a few Walmarts. Making more robots isn't that hard. The scale would inevitably follow.
- 1121redblackgo 1y agoThat's what escalators looked like in the beginning-- novelties at fairs, large department stores, and hotels.
- throwaway0123_5 1y agoThe only place I commonly see escalators besides these places is airports, I don't think they've expanded that much?