Given that it’s a humanoid robot, I suspect that this is more of a marketing stunt than any practical deployment of robots.
Humanoid robots don’t make a ton of sense in manufacturing. Why mimic the sub-optimal anatomy of a human when you can make your robotic work slave have any appendage you want, which are designed to be optinal for their task along the assembly line?
Humanoid robots mostly only make sense in spaces that need to be designed for humans (like homes or hospitals) where the robot needs to regularly interact with human infrastructure.
Sure but if you have brand new machines that are supposed to be operated by humans, buying a 10k humanoid compared to paying some real humans is going to appeal a lot of entrepreneurs: and you’ll be able to mix the two kinds of workers initially, see Amazon warehouses as an example.
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I guess the idea is that humanoid robots ideally require no adjustment to the factory, they can just use the tools made for human workers.
you can make your robotic slave have any appendage you want,
Now your speaking my language.
The training data for a lot of robots comes from tele operation so that form factor is going to stay important for some time. And making the whole plant basically wheelchair accessible isn’t worth it for now. There are variants with a wheeled base but once you add in some balancing for heavier objects and kneeling to pick stuff up it’s not much cheaper.
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What is the point in a humanoid form factor robot that you can’t have sex with?
What’s the point of any machine you can’t have sex with?
Only consumer facing things, right? Even then people would buy into aesthetic i think…
So I’m going with it’s a threat to labor.
Who said you can’t have sex with it?
Ask those humans who tele-operate some humanoids during the training days…
Car factories have had robots for decades. Is there even any practical use for humanoid robots there?
Strike fear into your fellow man? Show those peasants that you are working hard to replace them entirely.
I wanna see this guy 1v1 boston dynamics and that humanoid Tesla bot
A kind of benchmark or drag race for robots? Let’s organise a decathlon: Fight, chess, sports, killing top ranking useless humans, etc…
No, cage fights against each other
Contestants must run through these brick walls, swim through the magma pool, climb the 50’ smooth steel wall, and jump the chasm before smashing the watermelon at the end! Only the top 8 killbots will move on to the next round.
Can it empty my dishwasher?
The fact that nearly every scene in that video is a 2 second edit suggests that if these are really being used in a factory they are doing none of the things shown in the video IRL.
I cannot tell if this is legitimate or some potemkin-esque concept design for a factory
$1 humanoid robots?? I’d buy that for a dollar!
This is how the Terminator starts. Bet it will get pissed at its human overlords and build an android army to destroy us all.
