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

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

  I do chores for less than that.

  And I’m fuckable.

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• sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I’d love to have a robot to handle basic home maintenance tasks. Somehow, I’m not quite willing to bet $20k and $500/month on this thing being anything more than a gimmick. I’d also be really curious what happens to my $20k robot if I cancel the subscription and/or the company goes under. Do I just end up with a really expensive object lesson is poor spending decisions?

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  I suppose for a large house, $500/mo. is what one would pay for maid service.

  I don’t believe one robot can effectively clean piss from the corner behind the toilet, AND do laundry, AND clean windows, AND dust, AND clean a shower head, AND clean a refrigerator, etc., etc.

  Imagine a robot collecting everything out of a fridge onto a counter, removing the glass shelves, cleaning them, cleaning the inside of the fridge, and then putting everything back without breaking anything, and doing it in 30 minutes. Not happening. Even if it were done completely by remote control, I don’t think it could do it.

  These things are not anywhere close to a replacement for a human, but they’ll keep pushing it.

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  planned $499 per month subscription

  lol

  taking bets on how long it will take for this to become abandonware

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Quick…

    I saw a story a while ago about a tech company renting out airbnbs as training environments for these types of bots

    They absolutely destroyed the houses, fine motor skills is insanely difficult, and the robots just kept breaking everything.

    The coders don’t understand how the human brain works (no one does really, but they’re especially ignorant). So they’re trying to to make one “thing” that controls everything instead of a bunch of subprocesses acting along guidance

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  • TubbyMarmot@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I bet it never even makes it to market. Now robots will for sure, but these first ones out of the gate types rarely make it.

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• floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  They’re replacing underpaid immigrant workers with underpaid overseas workers remotely controlling a robot, while some rich techbro asshole in the middle skims off almost all the money.

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• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  They have been saying this since the 1990s, Rocky had a robot maid. Useless unless you just want something that kills anything that moves, which would be pretty cool I guess.

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• BigTrout75@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  It’s amazing, they can make a 20k humanoid but it’s impossible to make a 20k EV car.

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  • TubbyMarmot@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Fuck $20K for anything. We need an under $10K car.

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