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Comment on Tesla’s Optimus faces stiff humanoid competition at Beijing robot conference
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What even is the purpose of humanoid robots? Is there even a use case for it?
B312@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Creating mass unemployment.
Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Running cost of a robot is far lower than the running cost of a human.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tax the shit out of them!
Wanderer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
What a terrible idea.
Are we meant to be taxing excel and automated telephone exchanges, what about the printing press or solar panels?
All those have lower running costs than industries they replaced that had more workers.
yopla@jlai.lu 3 weeks ago
The idea is that there untold trillions worth of existing infrastructure and tools that are designed to be operated by a humanoid, so the hope is that by designing it close to a human form it will be able to perform task in an environment designed for human without having to design a different robot for each task.
Basically the idea is to create a robot that is good enough at doing a lot of things instead of one that is super efficient at one thing like the ones we use in industry right now.
There are a lot of use cases, but they all assume the robots reach a certain level of precision, speed and adaptability, which we are still far from.
UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Honestly I find it really hard to imagine a humanoid robot (at least without muscle induced mobility) maintaining an aircraft/plumbing and so on.
I can imagine the use case. I don’t see this tech being anywhere close to maturity in this decade though. The amount of processing power would be CRAZY to deal with these tasks, no? Computer vision + motor skills. Add actual mobility to that. What would be the power source? Definitely not a battery! Would it be like a cable connected to a wall outlet or something?