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> When we see humanoid robots actually out in the wild for sale at retail, they are going to come very very quickly, at scale. Building factories and other rob
by troupo 1mo ago
> When we see humanoid robots actually out in the wild for sale at retail, they are going to come very very quickly, at scale.
Building factories and other robots is trivial. Just go and watch videos of any modern factory.
What's nigh impossible is doing complex interactions requiring finesse, "human touch", and at speed.
Even if you build a million robot-building robots, not a single one of them will be able to fold clothes, for example.
- dawnerd 1mo agoRe: folding clothes, there’s machines that can do that already at the industrial scale.
- troupo 1mo agoBut probably not when those clothes come out if the dryer, or (in the retail) when someone just throws a shirt on a shelf
- vessenes 1mo agoWeave robotics (no affiliation) claims they are folding over 1,000 lbs of laundry a week in homes right now: https://www.weaverobotics.com https://www.weaverobotics.com. I have no idea how well these work.
- troupo 1mo agoIt's strange that there are no videos on the site of their robots doing what they claim they are doing (or they are not playing on mobile safari?) And existin videos elsewhere don't inspire confidence: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1reacvq/weave_robotics_isaac_0_a_stationary_laundry/ https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1reacvq/weave_rob... (though it is impressive in a way)