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Cool tech, but what's the intended use case for the end product? Or is there no use case until it's as good as a human?
They're trying to improve them to a point where they can do stuff good. At this point I doubt its much good for anything other than demos and the most basic of tasks
Yeah, but I just don't see a use case for a humanoid robot, a standard robot arm could do the job in the video. Robots are better when designed for specific jobs.
Current robots are better when designed for a specific job, but that means only corps with enough scale can afford robots
What about much smaller companies that can’t afford to design and build a robot for a specific task? There are thousands of these companies, doing things at smaller scale so not able to automate. However a robot with similar capabilities to a human, that could be trained like a human, and doesn’t cost like an industrial robot, can fill in for a human at all of these companies
I mean in the far distant future... yeah I agree.
But back to preset times, when robots like these are cheap enough for a small company to buy over hiring someone, then it will be cheap enough to buy custom robots too.
https://www.unitree.com/g1
But we don't have the technology yet where a humanoid robot can do humanoid things better than a human.
What you see isn't an end product. It's a research prototype, one of many in a long line of future models that are on the path to making a humanoid robot possible.