Humanoid robots were a sci-fi dream. Suddenly they're everywhere

AndrewKemendo 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This is no joke. I’m about to buy a few for work, each cheaper than the quadrapeds I bought just a few years ago.

They still are not ready for consumers and non-R&D uses, but for 10-15k you can easily get your money out of it compared to building your own Mobile ALOHA or similar

And no TESLA isn’t even barely relevant in this market. I would NEVER willingly buy a tesla robot.

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southwindcg 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Can I ask about your use case, and how humanoids would be a better fit than similarly-priced quadrupeds? Something with two-handed telepresence?

	▲	AndrewKemendo 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The major benefit is that human behavior capture trajectories can be immediately mapped to robotic joint control points. The goal is to test what specifically unique to bipedal humanoid action space that we can’t with something more stable. My personal preference for robot form factor is a centaur, but nobody makes those at scale unfortunately