• theneverfox@pawb.social
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    22 hours ago

    No, I’m talking about automonous humanoid robots specifically. The rollers and shelf bots have been around for years

    NVidia also just released a big suite of tools to train AI for robotics, it’s basically a huge physics sandbox where you can train and test models at scale before real world testing

    Boston dynamics and others are currently writing/lobbying regulations for bipedal robots so that they can meet safety requirements - current safety standards require an emergency shutoff switch, but bipedal robots fall over if they don’t balance, which isn’t particularly safe

    This is happening, and quickly. None of them have the dexterity to machine parts, but the range of tasks they can do is rapidly expanding

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      21 hours ago

      Lol! This isn’t “happening, and quickly”. Boston Dynamics has been working on their humanoid robots for decades, and they’re basically at the same stage they were at the beginning.

      It’s just a gimmick, my friend. Not a viable alternative to human labor. They don’t perform tasks “better” or “more efficiently” than people. It isn’t even a matter of them improving over time. You simply don’t invest in new technologies that promise to do the exact same thing as the old ones.

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        21 hours ago

        Lmao… That’s a wild take. Boston dynamics has been steadily improving this whole time, they were the first to really crack bipedal locamotion. Not just walking, running and flipping. Carrying loads. Kipping back up to their feet

        You can, right now, for $8k buy a humanoid robot that can run, and be controlled to do whatever else. That’s insane

        And you can get shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially. These exist and are for sale

        Amazon is currently field testing humanoid robots that deliver packages from the truck to the door.

        Your knowledge is very dated, friend.

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          20 hours ago

          Lol! Are you talking about this? Dude, this is what I meant when I called them a gimmick. And if I recall correctly, the “shelf stacking humanoid robots that work commercially”, are not actually"working commercially". In fact, they didn’t work at all when given actual things to lift and stack. They could only carry empty boxes, and dropped them more often than not, and tended to fall over all the time.

          Like I said, even if they improve to the point where they don’t fuck everything up…all they will be able to do, is the same thing people already do. Except people can also do all kinds of different things, without requiring an engineer to be onsite to set them up for the new task.

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            20 hours ago

            No… I’ve never seen those before. That’s not what I’m talking about at all, I also think the Tesla robots piloted by humans are probably going nowhere, for the record

            Want to run failed startups past me some more? I gave you examples of humanoid robots being tested in real world conditions

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              20 hours ago

              Ummm, except you didn’t give me examples. Can you post a link to these robots that are actually being tested in real world conditions?

              Or even a link to the $8k robots that are not the same as the one I found for $6k? I have a hard time believing that another $2k is going to somehow provide the difference between that thing, and something functional.