• Leon@pawb.social
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    5 days ago

    What is even the point of these robots? Like, will he provide the operators as well? Do I have to employ someone to work my robot? Am I supposed to use a robot as a proxy? I don’t get what’s being sold.

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      5 days ago

      What’s being sold is the illusion that the robots are completely autonomous based on AI or something.

      Buy it now, get the full AI self-walking update in two three seven fifteen some years.

      It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?

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      5 days ago

      The robots are supposed to be autonomous, not driven by an operator, but no one can make robots except Boston Dynamics and even they have struggled.

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      Even if they aren’t autonomous you could argue that the dexterity of these bots could be very useful for a human operator to work in a hazardous environment where the human being present directly is harmful.

      Now selling them as fully autonomous while pulling off an Amazon checkout is total bullshit.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      There’s a singular perfectly awesome use case for a robot you can drive as your proxy. Here it is:

      Of course, the chances on Elmo being able to deliver anything even approaching this minimum level of usefulness are well into the negatives.

      • Leon@pawb.social
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        5 days ago

        Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.