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.
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.
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 days ago
The idea is that a robot + guy in india to run it is cheaper than hiring and American
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 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.
Dojan@pawb.social 5 days ago
Given that his cars break from rain, and his rockets always explode, I wouldn’t put much stock in these, no.
sfgifz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
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.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 6 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
twothreesevenfifteensome years.It worked for Tesla cars, so why should the same strategy not work on the same idiots with robots?