I don't see the benefit of the extra level of indirection. Why not just hire a housekeeper to do the same work better without the unnecessary $20k telepresence platform? Sure, it might benefit the creators in harvesting subsidized motion and interaction data that they can later use to cut humans out of the loop, but what's the benefit to the customers paying for it?
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For $500/mo, my house would be clean as fuck with any typical cleaning service.
Literally just slavery with extra steps. You can be damned sure those extra steps exist solely to keep the poor at a distance and the robots are gimped so they can't be used against the rich slavers.
It's the worst in everyway imaginable. I cannot comment on it's capabilities, but the fact that it records the environment and can be taken over by a remote worker is simply too much.
I'll call it an arthouse short film until I see at least one home movie/unboxing thing showing how janky any new product really is, and maybe still after that. I can't see a project like this having gotten to anywhere near that level without it being widely talked about.
Lots of fun ways for it to go wrong if it is real though. 'Pardon me while I tidy your credit cards with my camera eyes.' 'I told the robot to jerk me off and it ripped my balls off instead because it's actually some 15 year old boy in a VR headset.' 'I told the robot to clean my living room while i took a shower, but it came and stared at me naked and wouldn't let me leave, because it's actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.' 'I got an alert that my robot slave had to go into pilot mode because a person arrived, so I pulled up the feed and got a POV video of it object-raping my sister.' 'I told the robot to feed my hamster and my cat, but it decided to feed my hamster to my cat, which may have been because of an error in language processing or because it's actually a 15 year old boy in a VR headset.'
Wee, living on the edge of cyberpunk dystopia!
There is a video on youtube done by Wall Street Journal. It's not a real robot. It's remote controlled.
Humanoid robot is a bad engineering design anyway.
in theory, if they managed to get them to work properly, and we were to ignore the privacy issues (the lack thereof). a humanoid robot would be amazing and revolutionary.
it isn't just for chores though, once they are competent enough to perform productive labour it'll replace most jobs.
assume almost all human labour to be a thing of the past, and I doubt those tech rich would want to restructure society so we don't end up like soylent green.
Yes, it would be amazing and revolutionary. However, you achieve the same with other designs more economically.
only capitalism can make a world, where labour is a thing is the past into a dystopia.
Under capitalism, a post scarcity society would be hell on earth.
We interact with the world as humans, it stands to reason a general purpose humanoid robot would be capable of interacting in similar ways (or at least this should be the design goal). This immediately solves several issues. First, it gives us a baseline of understanding in terms of interactions and tasks. There's no guessing how the device or interface should work. Second, it establishes general capabilities and limitations. There may be more efficient single purpose or limited designs for a subset of general tasks, but as a whole, a humanoid robot is the perfect general purpose approach.
Dude, humans are not perfect general purpose solutions. That's why we use machines or animals. Also, I don't get what you're saying 'baseline understanding of interactions and tasks'?
What should the robots look like then?
It doesnt matter. This is the next step after Ai to get to dystopia. Cant stop the future.
Only way to stop dystopia is by taxing wealth, not work.
How are humans inefficient in design? We've managed to rule the planet with our design? Are you even human bro?!
😆 so hard to know on lemmy who's human
To give examples of inefficiency - we have five fingers and surely one fewer makes no difference in capability, we have 2 legs whereas 4 will be more stable and faster, eyes can't see in uv or ir.
There are some things that don't really effect robots but shows poor design like complexity of nose and throat being a choking hazard :D.
Managing to be successful as a species is just evolutionary competence, which is a "random walk" through genetic changes that happened to create something better than others (not the best, just better than rest) for a larger set of environments
Looks like the beginning to a Black Mirror episode.
My god what a horrible ad. Everything from the people to the robot seems like bad acting. The girl trying to juke the bot out was hilarious
And wtf is with the choice of "ain't no sunshine when she's gone" for the montage of assembling the robot?
Right? The whole thing made me uncomfortable and it wasn't cause of the droid
...is NEO anatomically correct? Can I upload my AI waifu into it?
I do wonder how many people say "NEO, jerk me off" completely forgetting it's controlled remotely at some Indian call centre.
Win-win!
Everything I see the robot do in this video falls into one of two categories: enabling people to be even bigger lazy, entitled pieces of shit or kind of a stretch for its level of dexterity.
I guess it's cheaper than a full time live in maid?
This thing is gonna start so many fires
I can only see this as a scam that will have no real practical use and dies out after about 2 years.
The robot in that thumbnail has already seen some horrors
The very first thought when I saw the photo of it:
I am Groot!
So, i CAN'T fuck it?
No one ever said that.