Comment on A $20,000 humanoid that does chores is heading to US homes this year.

• artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “Non-humanoids” is an incredibly broad description. For example, a Roomba can’t empty your dishwasher. But a humanoid robot can use your existing human vacuum to clean the floors.

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  • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes that’s the whole point. They’re forcibly thinking in humanoid forms, while I dont care about form, I care about function. Make shit that’s useful, and I dont care what package it comes in. In the vast majority of use cases it’s incredibly cumbersome to have it in bipedal form; you to have reserve cpu power/mechanics/power for balance and shit, while not at all necessary for the tasks at hand.

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    • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes that’s the whole point

      …what? Is your point?

      I dont care about form, I care about function

      They are largely the same in this case.

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      • jwt@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You said non-humanoid is a broad description like it’s a negative. It’s not. Fixating on making the robot humanoid unnecessarily narrows it down. Form and function are by definition not the same, so I don’t understand what you mean by that. But I’m got going to stop because it seems.you’re intentionally obtuse.

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