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| ▲ | 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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