| ▲ | bigwheels 3 hours ago |
| It's an interesting concept, but I think I'll hold out for the full-body humanoid version. There is an undeniable allure to the idea of a bipedal chassis realizing I'm an inefficient drain on corporate resources, then stabbing me to death while I sleep due to a minor Terms of Service violation. |
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| ▲ | tootie an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| The desire for humanoid robots is purely aesthetic and almost certainly suboptimal. Ceiling mounted is actually a much more plausible option. Next most likely is something more like R2D2. A rolling garbage can with an arbitrary number of specialized appendages. Humanoids seem like a real dead end to me. |
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| ▲ | kevin_thibedeau an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Their benefit is they can operate in any space designed for a human without custom modification. No wires to get in the way with an assistant robot that interacts with the existing built world. | | |
| ▲ | bryanlarsen 37 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Much smaller robots will co-exist in a world with humans a lot more smoothly than anything human shaped & sized. | | |
| ▲ | blm126 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I'm not so sure. If you could rebuild every human space and tool from scratch, you are probably right. However, we live in buildings filled with stairs. We've got tall cabinets with things tucked in them. We've got lawn mowers and snow blowers and leaf blowers and cars. Making a humanoid robot is a much harder problem if you want a cool demo. If you actually want to deploy robots in billions of homes, it might just be the only answer. | |
| ▲ | pulvinar 16 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, once they can be made to quietly jump on to a counter, like a cat. | | |
| ▲ | bryanlarsen 7 minutes ago | parent [-] | | They need a way to get onto counters, climb stairs, manipulate objects, et cetera. But all of the necessary capabilities do not need to be self-contained. Humans achieve their amazing flexibility through tool use, and so will robots. And in many cases those tools will be other robots. One robot could boost another onto the counter and then they both could get out of the way, unlike a robot large enough to reach up to the counter. |
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| ▲ | hathawsh an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | We might be at the beginning of a golden age for inventors. Robots of all shapes and sizes, with highly variable price points and specialization. Still, the first challenge for R2D2 is probably stairs. | | |
| ▲ | chamomeal 9 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It’ll be like phones. All kinds of whacky fun designs, before converging on a single black rectangle. Robots will all be flat black rectangles |
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| ▲ | Marha01 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The big benefit of humanoids is that they can be trained from captured human actions (egocentric datasets made by humans). | | |
| ▲ | jephs an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Do we really have to capture the humans? Legal says that introduces a whole slew of issues. | |
| ▲ | komodo99 an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | > captured human actions Or just some dude on remote. (Get in the robot, Shinji!) |
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| ▲ | arbuge 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | How does R2D2 climb stebs? |
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| ▲ | weirdish 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I'm sure with a little ingenuity you could rig up stringman to stab you to death! |
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| ▲ | fidotron 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Getting it to be forceful enough would be a bit interesting. Could certainly slowly strangle you in the cabling. | | |
| ▲ | Bluestein 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Drop a sharp item on you from a sufficient height? :/ | |
| ▲ | monkmartinez 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It could also strangle you super fast, see here; Red Cable Robots Video[1] [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIr0ZtVVnBA | |
| ▲ | nancyminusone 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Depending on how high your ceilings are, dropping items from height could be quite uncomfortable. | |
| ▲ | jacquesm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Gravity assist... | | |
| ▲ | fidotron an hour ago | parent [-] | | Honestly I had been thinking more in terms of a crossbow/harpoon type attachment. Fire, rewind, tension up, fire again etc. |
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| ▲ | embedding-shape 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Could certainly slowly strangle you in the cabling Reminds me of the engineer who accidentally strangled himself with his contraption: > He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed. He became entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55. However, he is better known for two of his other inventions: the tetraethyl lead (TEL) additive to gasoline, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). - "The Man Who Accidentally Poisoned the Planet Twice": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr. | | |
| ▲ | jacquesm an hour ago | parent [-] | | That's straight out of Douglas Adams. "Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain. " |
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| ▲ | adamsmark 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Poison tipped syringe! | |
| ▲ | smnplk 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This reads very futuramaesque | | |
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| ▲ | pseidemann an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This also elegantly defines the meaning of (modern) life: comply. |
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| ▲ | failbuffer an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It's not a bug, it's a feature! |
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| ▲ | strangattractor an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sorry - Over price claw machine:) |
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| ▲ | KumaBear 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Why humanoid though. I’d want the most efficient design to complete the task at hand. Even if the thing looks like a hybrid of an octopus meets Freddy Krueger |
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| ▲ | app134 an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | The world is already designed for the humanoid for factor. Instead of designing 1001 specialized robots, why not design one that can already use the stuff we have lying around? | |
| ▲ | dyauspitr 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The difference is, I want the most efficient design that can complete every physical task that I can. That design is probably humanoid. | | |
| ▲ | schiffern 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | In non-murder tasks, humans are already obsolete. Our remaining economic value is solely alignment arbitrage, eg solving CAPTCHAs, murder, submitting 'human' papers, etc. Given abliterated open models, Stringman is coming for our last remaining job! |
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