Completely unsold on this take. The pace of development in China can't be ignored. The consumer market for a pretty dumb household chore bot is huge.

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datadrivenangel 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I own at least three! Dishwasher, laundy washer, laundry dryer...

I would get a roomba but it can't do enough fine detail to be worth it.

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robots0only 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

and so is the safety margin for a humanoid. The consumer market is huge only if the robots are highly reliable and work very well both of which are not true at the moment. Things will change but it will take quite a bit of time and much more research.

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Symmetry 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Safety stops are much more challenging in a robot that tends to fall over without active balancing. Though with ISO 25785-1 in progress maybe there'll be a workable humanoid robot safety standard in a few years.

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		Interesting, hadn't heard of ISO 25785-1. It appears to be for industrial robots, though, and explicitly excludes "mobile robots intended for consumer or household use".

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jpace121 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Is the demand there at the price point and reliability levels that are currently possible?

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numpad0 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They're all dog bots adapted to stand on back legs. None are true humanoids in the first place, none of them even have articulating pelvis.

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diamond559 a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Computers beat Gary Kasparov in chess in the 90s and we're all excited now bc it can write passable high school essays 30 years later. This is the real pace of "AI" and robotics development, decades not years.