Tesla’s Optimus faces stiff humanoid competition at Beijing robot conference

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• vegeta@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Zron@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just amazed it wasn’t a dancer in spandex again

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• n3m37h@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, you mean that person in a silver jumpsuit is competing against robots?

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• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What even is the purpose of humanoid robots? Is there even a use case for it?

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  • yopla@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • B312@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    😏

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  • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Creating mass unemployment.

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  • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Running cost of a robot is far lower than the running cost of a human.

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    • brlemworld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tax the shit out of them!

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• HarriPotero@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would they name their robot after the second best autobot?

  Everyone knows Ultra Magnus is the best one.

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• ThePyroPython@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think this humanoid robot will be Elon’s 'Sinclair C5" moment.

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• werefreeatlast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Humanoid? The requirements were clear… maximize the number of guns. How many guns are required to pick apples from a tree? Well if you got 10 apples, surely 10 guns right?

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