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What part blows your mind?

by xnx 1y ago

lm28469 1y ago
Personally it's the part where some rich dude in SV tells me he's building what sci fi says will save us time to focus on real things The irony and complete disconnection from the reality of 99% of people is quite mind blowing indeed
- vineyardmike 1y ago
  This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected? The last few years of tech have been full of keynotes with AI that can make art, AI that can send heartfelt messages for you, AI to make music, etc - All things people actually like to do and want to do. This is a $500/mo robot that can do household chores so you don’t have to. Many people in America (estimated >10%) spend a few hundred a month already on actually hiring cleaners to visit their house and clean biweekly. This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on. This is a luxury, but it’s a top-25th percentile luxury not top 0.1%.
  - lm28469 1y ago
    > This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected? > This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on. It's a robot that will be mostly remote controlled by a wage slave to pick up your dirty socks, this is black mirror tier, not startrek tier.
denysvitali 1y ago
The fact that it feels like we're really getting there. The product is not perfect, and most importantly not shipped yet, but it's one of first humanoid robots I saw with a price tag and customer focus. Point being, we might be at an iPhone-like pivotal moment for home robots.
- xnx 1y ago
  Don't be too confused by the shape. The 1X isn't so different from the robots of the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LrNAKWZfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LrNAKWZfI
  - jdietrich 1y ago
    In the same way that a Tesla Model Y isn't so different from a golf cart. If you showed a 1980s EE any component taken from the Neo, it'd look like science fiction. Some of the least sophisticated parts (motors & batteries) are still an order of magnitude better than anything available 40 years ago; the most sophisticated (processors, memory, camera sensors) are at least six orders of magnitude better. The Pentagon of the 1980s would have fought a small war to get their hands on a few of the MEMS IMU chips that we put in video game controllers.

What part blows your mind?

by xnx 1y ago

What part blows your mind?

Personally it's the part where some rich dude in SV tells me he's building what sci fi says will save us time to focus on real things The irony and complete disconnection from the reality of 99% of people is quite mind blowing indeed

vineyardmike 1y ago
This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected? The last few years of tech have been full of keynotes with AI that can make art, AI that can send heartfelt messages for you, AI to make music, etc - All things people actually like to do and want to do. This is a $500/mo robot that can do household chores so you don’t have to. Many people in America (estimated >10%) spend a few hundred a month already on actually hiring cleaners to visit their house and clean biweekly. This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on. This is a luxury, but it’s a top-25th percentile luxury not top 0.1%.
- lm28469 1y ago
  > This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected? > This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on. It's a robot that will be mostly remote controlled by a wage slave to pick up your dirty socks, this is black mirror tier, not startrek tier.

denysvitali 1y ago

The fact that it feels like we're really getting there. The product is not perfect, and most importantly not shipped yet, but it's one of first humanoid robots I saw with a price tag and customer focus. Point being, we might be at an iPhone-like pivotal moment for home robots.

xnx 1y ago
Don't be too confused by the shape. The 1X isn't so different from the robots of the 1980s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LrNAKWZfI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-LrNAKWZfI
- jdietrich 1y ago
  In the same way that a Tesla Model Y isn't so different from a golf cart. If you showed a 1980s EE any component taken from the Neo, it'd look like science fiction. Some of the least sophisticated parts (motors & batteries) are still an order of magnitude better than anything available 40 years ago; the most sophisticated (processors, memory, camera sensors) are at least six orders of magnitude better. The Pentagon of the 1980s would have fought a small war to get their hands on a few of the MEMS IMU chips that we put in video game controllers.