Now that the motion part of robotics is pretty much solved, we need grippers and sensors - still being worked on - then enough of a brain to be easily taught new skills and be able to perform them reliably in real-world conditions.
I know I'm going to be downvoted for this, but I have to say that Teslabot shuffling along with what appears to be clenched butt cheeks looks more Asimo era in terms of dynamics than SOTA. It's not even clear if it has dynamic balance or depends on keeping center of mass over its feet.
Interestingly, Boston Dynamics is presently owned by a car company. It's Hyundai rather than Honda.
mholt•3mo ago
Then like the space shuttle, it just disappeared. I feel like there was Asimo.... and then nothing for decades until now.
Sure I can have a robot do my dishes, but it's still more efficient to just use a dishwasher appliance.
gervwyk•3mo ago
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FridayoLeary•3mo ago
What robots are good at is automation in factories, allowing manufacturers to streamline tasks, perform them faster and save labour, which does drive down prices.
Perhaps with ai the technology to make 'intelligent' robots is finally within sight, but the physical technology is still not there yet, and even if it would be i doubt it would become widely adopted.
2III7•3mo ago
Eventually having a humanoid at home doing the dishes and whatever other tasks we find boring is a byproduct of developing a capable robot for the repetitive and dangerous jobs.
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rasz•3mo ago
Asimo was a dead end. Preprogrammed/precalculated static balance, that uncanny 'Im holding a surprise in my diaper' walk.
numpad0•3mo ago
It's not like they just hit the precalculated coordinates on the floor with the feet, they used gyros and hand-written algorithms to compute all the forces in real time, just like today those Unitree bots do with GPU trained algorithms. They're fundamentally the same. Very little had changed.
Who's making up that hallucination? This isn't even the second time I've come across those "preprogrammed" BS.
rasz•3mo ago
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