Is anyone building non-humanoid robots? Feels like humanoid is limiting the creativity of building a truly useful robot in today's age

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Chabsff 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used.

That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still relies on human labor because the ROI of redesigning production lines didn't make sense.

	▲	poilcn 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		These humanoid robots would cost $10-100k to make and would require costly maintenance for them to do the job people in poor countries do for a dollar. I don't say we won't come to it eventually, but not in near future More realistically it seems that llms in several years could help dramatically decrease costs of automation and make it available for more industries
	▲	gowld an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		That's the dream. It's easier to redesign the work to be robot-friendly than to deploy a humanoid robot and have it actually work.

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numpad0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

ABB, EPSON, FANUC, Kawasaki... Virtually every cars in past 50-60 years have had robots and some form of AI involved in assembly. Some of them already support standard humanoid/dogbot tools in their products.

Humanoid startup execs just don't talk about that.

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nope1000 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In the Xiaomi Model Demo, they have non-humanoid robots

https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html

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2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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