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Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea
- 45612987 5mo agoLG group uses it naturally for spying from data aggregated in home appliances. The rationale is fluff. A humanoid robot would demand continuous maintenance, especially after planned obsolescence kicks in. No robot has ever worked under dirt conditions.
- oakinnagbe 5mo ago[dead]
- PowerElectronix 5mo agoI can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.
- spankibalt 5mo agoAnd you'll better start to practice worshipping those ads unless your ass wants to be the star in B-166ER's last home video.
- accrual 5mo agoI hope early home robotics will be like a game console launch - a community rush to break through any initial barriers to homebrew. Specific early firmwares will be desirable and a whole community will form around creating exploits and running user software. As old robot units fall out of service and are sold in bulk, the community will pick them up and keep them running.
- htrp 5mo agowhich means that late stage robotics (or game consoles) become very heavily locked walled gardens as every exploit gets patched.
- vasco 5mo agoSex robots.
- Teever 5mo agoI for one eagerly look forward to alien-autopsy like videos of people reverse engineering robots that they acquired by 'disabling' whatever equivalent of Lime/Bird/Volt service sends out on the streets to do stuff for people. It'll be neat to walk through some weirdo mechanics shop that's full of robots in different states of disassembly that have been repurposed to help with whatever mad scientist hacker schemes that they have in mind.
- a34729t 5mo agoDont forget the artificial people personalities
- ourmandave 5mo agoThe ads will run on the coffee cup which will be the only thing the robot will make coffee in. And it will have a Keep Warm option for monthly subscribers.
- htrp 5mo agowhy not hyundai (given the existing boston dynamics ownership)?
- mkl 5mo agoWhy not both? They partner with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, etc.
- trumpdong 5mo agoThere is no good reason to have a humanoid robot. None. Dishwashers do best in a dishwasher shape.
- lenerdenator 5mo agoDepends on what your definition of "good" is. If your definition is "it could, at some point, enable me to stop paying humans for their labor and pass along more of the value to major shareholders like myself", then yes, that's a reason to want humanoid robots. If your definition of "good" is a little more broadly scoped than the above - which it should be if you don't have an MBA and a substance abuse problem - then you're correct.
- letmevoteplease 5mo agoIn a competitive market, this won't happen: "passing along more of the value to major shareholders like myself." The price of human labor will go down, but competition will force the price of goods to go down alongside it. Profit margins will stabilize, but the cost of living and the cost of goods will plummet. It's like the invention of the power loom: it was terrible for the wages of hand-weavers, but it made clothing radically cheaper and more abundant for the rest of humanity. The only way the shareholders keep all the value is if we allow monopolies to form. The potential difference here is that it might eliminate all human labor which would likely force us into some new kind of economy. Hopefully something better than one where humans waste their lives on manual labor.
- raincom 5mo agoI'd love to see the cost of living go down. Unemployment raises fast; the cost of living goes down very slow, and it will take a few generations. That's why the underclass will go through a lot of pain.
- skeledrew 5mo agoI found Manna to be a decent read, with its dual vision of how a post-human-labour world could be. http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
- ck2 5mo agoSo every 1000 physical bots are going to need the power and cooling equivalent of those super-popular datacenters they are trying to build everywhere And I am virtually positive I know what the most popular application for them is going to become, the same way we've somehow decided to legalize gambling and drugs and make them available at a click to everyone everywhere BTW are people going to be able to hack them to commit crimes? Protest for them? But eventually everything is used for war to murder undesirables, we're only a decade away from the US or Israel etc. airdropping 1000 armed humanoid robots into a civilian space to hunt for "terrorists"
- logicchains 5mo ago>we're only a decade away from the US or Israel etc. airdropping 1000 armed humanoid robots into a civilian space to hunt for "terrorists" Currently they just bomb the buildings into the ground, killing everyone indiscriminately, so robots can't be any worse than that.
- ksec 5mo agoI have written this before, It is not AI with digital automation that worries me, generally speaking I think that is a good direction even thought we are still in early stage. It is Humanoid, that will change everything. While we are still someway off, if we had PC - > Internet > Smartphone > AI, what is after AI will be Humanoid. We still have another 4-5 years to go on current AI, and then Humanoid will further carry AI forward. This is similar to how Smartphone made the whole internet population 5 - 10 times bigger, further increasing demand on internet infrastructure. If anything, Apple should work on this. Perhaps the only thing that will be bigger than iPhone.
- ianm218 5mo agoYou say it worries you more than pure digital AI but don't explain. What is it about that humanoids that makes you worry?
- forshaper 5mo agoI was thinking the other day that Apple is best positioned for drone companions- not even necessarily humanoid, but solving the battery charge problem to have an assistant follow you everywhere.
- chaostheory 5mo agoYou’d only have to worry if we still had a long horizon of peace and globalism. With more potential breaks in supply chains, everything will cost a lot more in terms of time and money.
- elil17 5mo agoIt is good to see someone finally working on one of these without the stupid legs (I think the legs are stupid because they give your robot the chance to fall over and are not relevant for most environments).
- gacgacgac 5mo agoDo you have stairs in your house?
- forgotusername6 5mo agoTwo robots
- jannyfer 5mo agoThis is how I used to solve the roomba-can’t-use-stairs problem. I’ve now moved to a single floor. Problem solved!
- IshKebab 5mo agoThen they can't bring anything up or down the stairs. Still, I expect it won't matter - by the time we have reasonably priced robots that can reliably do all housework, that's like 90% of jobs eliminated from society and probably society will collapse.
- skeledrew 5mo agoMaybe one can throw things to the other :).
- gacgacgac 5mo agoMy kitchen, office, living room, gaming computer, entryway, and bedroom are all separated by sets of stairs. So that's six robots for me?
- geetee 5mo agoI am protected
- raincom 5mo agoNvidia needs to keep the hype train going, by throwing darts in every possible direction.
- madaxe_again 5mo agoThey’ve been throwing darts in this particular direction for many, many years - back when I was watching 2 minute papers with interest and hoovering up their stock at $0.80, long before the hype train pulled out of the station. This is all mature stack, and the value is enormous and largely unrealised at this point - the systems they have for everything from training to implementation to edge inference basically present a complete capture of the ecosystem for robotics, autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, you name it - anything where you’re integrating input streams and acting on it, they’ve got covered, end to end. I continue to hold a substantial chunk of Nvidia - because while hyperscaler spend may wane once the initial arms race subsides, they are uniquely positioned to pivot to making use of the output of hyperscaler and other GPU product.
- yalogin 5mo agoWe are going to be conditioned into thinking 20k-50k for a robot is ok to spend. The question is how long before get there
- sandworm101 5mo agoAnd we are being conditioned to think chores like getting drinks and putting the dishes away are beneath us. It is up there with motion- or voice-activated room lights. Want a robot to bring you coffee in bed each morning? Unless you are in a wheelchair, put the coffee machine on a timer and walk to the kitchen you lazy piece of ... Dont know how to make toast? Too lazy to clean your own sheets? Everyone wanting one of these robots should have to do a few weeks of army basic training before earning the right to be this lazy. (Actuallty, iirc, we didnt wash our own sheets. But we did make our own toast!)
- snek_case 5mo agoI agree there's a path where this encourages people to be even more sedentary and lazy. On the other hand, if I cook every meal and clean up after, plus take care of home cleaning, I could easily spend 3 hours a day on a variety of home tasks. A robot could potentially prepare better quality meals from fresh ingredients and save me 3 hours a day. It could also fix holes in my clothes and do other tasks I'm just not motivated enough to do. So the way to think about it is like you just gained a huge amount of energy and free time to do things you weren't doing before.
- ericd 5mo agoWell yeah, if it can do most of the household chores and lasts a decade, it’s totally worth as much as a car to many people.
- netrap 5mo agoIf it provides similar utility as a car, what's the big deal about that price? It would be the same type of purchase, right?
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- skeledrew 5mo agoHow did this "Physical AI" term originate? Isn't "robot" good enough anymore? Or "android" (though maybe that should be reserved for the really human-like machines)?
- phyzix5761 5mo agoI recently published an article on this topic titled The Next Big Leap: https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-06-05_the-next-big-leap.html https://arkvis.com/blog/2026-06-05_the-next-big-leap.html
- Danox 5mo agoDoes this mean Nvidia actually has an actual working operating system? If so, what are they waiting for? And why do they need Microsoft? For their latest Arm venture.