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The founder of Xpeng reportedly said not to expect a home robot servant anytime soon. The more immediate use will be as tour guides, sales assistants, etc. Sigh, so much more has to be ironed out.
Robotics and humanoid robotics & civilian drones discussion
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The founder of Xpeng reportedly said not to expect a home robot servant anytime soon. The more immediate use will be as tour guides, sales assistants, etc. Sigh, so much more has to be ironed out.
humanoid robot that move around in 2 legs in a factory floor is pretty dumb.
Anyways, here is UQI's solution for moving around boxes and containers in warehouses. This makes a lot more sense to me.
Always did. Humanoids have many design compromises because the human body is not optimal for many tasks. That's why we made machines.
The Unitree price point is extremely attractive. The large supply chain being built by China, as well as all the basic "algorithms" that allow the humanoid robots to balance, walk, and do all kinds of cool stuff we see in videos is the "infrastructure" for a future truly functional humanoid robot.
When the "ChatGPT" moment for robot software finally arrives, China will basically have everything ready and in place to mass-produce a robot labor force.
Unitree humanoid robots have great price point and dexterity, but like all other humanoid robots, it's really struggling with the "smarts".
I don't have high hopes for useful humanoid robots because we can barely managed even self driving cars. If something that have very predictable goals and objectives (Go from A to B, follow traffic rules) can be so difficult. A robot that must interpret vague/fuzzy commands will be that much more difficult.
Ubtech has started delivery of these cute little desktop robots which were developed with China Telecom.
It would be more accurate to phrase it as it was worded on the EE website, "world's first portable underwater exoskeleton system that assists divers' knee movement." There are lots of niche underwater exoskeletons though and its a groing market. Somehow when other journalists reposted they get copy-paste giddy and leave out the details.
The real "first undersea exoskeleton" was probably some soldier who fell in the water a couple thousand years ago and drowned. The pic below is a good runner up - the Carmagnolle Bros diving suite from 1878, which just looks incredibly cool.
