They Are Here - Buy Your Humanoid Robot

[CARDOZZO]

This is exciting.

You can buy a humanoid robot for $9K

https://www.kscale.dev/

 

[Wilhelm44]

10 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

This is exciting.

You can buy a humanoid robot for $9K

https://www.kscale.dev/

 

Cool, I watched the video, wasn't quite clear on it's uses though. Is this one mainly just for chores around the house ?

[CARDOZZO]

6 hours ago, Wilhelm44 said:

Cool, I watched the video, wasn't quite clear on it's uses though. Is this one mainly just for chores around the house ?

Sure. Cooking and cleaning.

It is a use case for early adopters.

You will have to teach skills to the robot, programming it and etc.

[Jannes]

These guys are heroes! I cant think of many things more impactful then making the future technology more accessible for everyone. 

But it would be interesting if they really manage to built robots that beat the big companies, other bots can do backflips and have strong sensitivity in their robot hands, that would be hard to replicate. 

But maybe they are just that talented and its like Linux beating Windows before Windows became the standard, I would hope so. 

Edited July 2 by Jannes

[CARDOZZO]

38 minutes ago, Jannes said:

These guys are heros!

Insane work. Benjamin did work on Google, Meta and Tesla. 

Robotics startups tease each other asking "Do you have a buy button?".

If you look, what we have is demos from Tesla and Figure.

Do they have a buy button?  

 

[CARDOZZO]

Demos are easy, shipping is hard.

[Guest Nilsi]

But how good is it, really? Can it clean, cook, open doors, do laundry, and make the bed? If so, I’ll gladly drop 9k.

[Jannes]

3 hours ago, Nilsi said:

But how good is it, really? Can it clean, cook, open doors, do laundry, and make the bed? If so, I’ll gladly drop 9k.

Beyond that you would be one of the few people who would try it out early on, so you would get an early sense and vision where society is headed and how that would feel like. 

[Guest Nilsi]

6 minutes ago, Jannes said:

Beyond that you would be one of the few people who would try it out early on, so you would get an early sense and vision where society is headed and how that would feel like. 

Yeah, but I don’t want some clunky-ass robot in my home breaking stuff, collecting dust, and wrecking my nerves.

If it could reliably do those chores, it’d be a no-brainer investment. But I don’t get a kick out of “being on the cutting edge” or whatever - at least not when it comes to technology.

[CARDOZZO]

4 hours ago, Nilsi said:

But how good is it, really? Can it clean, cook, open doors, do laundry, and make the bed? If so, I’ll gladly drop 9k.

I can't say that. I think his main audience for the product are tech bro's.

You will need to teach the robot as a kid.

[Guest Nilsi]

8 minutes ago, CARDOZZO said:

I can't say that. I think his main audience for the product are tech bro's.

You will need to teach the robot as a kid.

I’ll buy one once there’s a nursery where I can send it to be taught how to behave.

[CARDOZZO]

33 minutes ago, Nilsi said:

I’ll buy one once there’s a nursery where I can send it to be taught how to behave.

 

I will make an analogy.

If you buy this robot, it is the same as if you bought a Apple I when it was launched. 

That's the way to think about humanoid robots this year.

[CARDOZZO]

 

[Wilhelm44]

4 minutes ago, CARDOZZO said:

 

We might get use to this a lot quicker than we think.

[CARDOZZO]

29 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

We might get use to this a lot quicker than we think.

 Sure. It is called Anthropomorphism.

Robotics/Mechatronics Engineering is a deep field. It is like rocket science on a complexity level.

We have motors, actuators, battery, AI, systems engineering.

Look at this:

 

[Wilhelm44]

2 hours ago, CARDOZZO said:

 Sure. It is called Anthropomorphism.

Robotics/Mechatronics Engineering is a deep field. It is like rocket science on a complexity level.

We have motors, actuators, battery, AI, systems engineering.

Look at this:

 

Are you in favor of robots having the ability/access to rewrite their own programs ?

[CARDOZZO]

16 minutes ago, Wilhelm44 said:

Are you in favor of robots having the ability/access to rewrite their own programs ?

That's what we humans do.

Leo's work is about human mind transcendence/reprogramming.

I do think that it is dangerous but we have to know how to deal with robots behaving badly.

[Wilhelm44]

1 hour ago, CARDOZZO said:

That's what we humans do.

Leo's work is about human mind transcendence/reprogramming.

I do think that it is dangerous but we have to know how to deal with robots behaving badly.

Thats just it, once theres like a billion robots, it will get tricky to deal with them if they go off the rails. Maybe they'll surprise us in a good way, instead of doom scenarios.

[Hojo]

If you have to program it yourself it will be impossible. I programmed a robot to move in highschool and you had to have everything perfect for it to work. Like you could program it to take 7 steps up left put hand out move hand forward grab pot. Everything would have to be in the perfect position.

Edited July 4 by Hojo

[CARDOZZO]

10 hours ago, Wilhelm44 said:

Thats just it, once theres like a billion robots, it will get tricky to deal with them if they go off the rails. Maybe they'll surprise us in a good way, instead of doom scenarios.

We will see