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The world of robotics is advancing pretty quickly. There’s been a flurry of robotics companies popping up from nowhere with impressive offerings. But what are the best robots around today? And why is this happening all of a sudden? We’ve already covered Figure AI before so let’s see what other robots are out there.
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A couple of corrections:
On the point of Astribot claiming that the Tesla Bot demo was faked, Elon did in fact openly say that it was being tele-operated at the time. So apologies for missing that.
There’s also an image of Andrej Karpathy used instead of Milan Kovac.
Enjoy the video!
Yeah, I was going to respond on Andrej’s and Milan’s correction.
There is no citations in the description
Also on the Tesla front: they’re hoping to use the bot doing real work in the Austin factory before the end of this year. Based on clips, probably helping assemble battery packs.
Why do metal-plastic robots have breasts modeled on the fantasies of 10 year old boys? And is that the mental age of those who want them?
Robots were imagined by 50s sci-fi writers, nobpody then thought any of it was or would be real, it was simply an imaginative exercise. Then animation and special effects made it all appear to be possible, and since then people with an insecure grasp of reality, like playboy Musk, have been trying to make sci-fi real, as the planetary ecosystem that sustains all 8 billion of us is collapsing, and the last thing that’s needed is wasting billions on ‘space’ travel and robots, as if there is a future.
Chores? Jajajaja how naive, it will be war and guns
The motivation for the android taking out the trash with an I Q of 140, speaks every language, has access to a near infinite knowledge, plays any insturment perfectly including improvisation, can write original stories, etc. and what do we want? Someone to change the cat litter, if pets are still a thing. What happens when your plastic pal is your best and only friend? Instead of talking kver the days events just let the robots do the talking, so much better than what you were going to say. Some future.
I’m an introvert with autism id love a robot companion to chat with and help with some tasks