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We accidentally solved robotics by watching 1M hours of YouTube

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209 points alexcos | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 16:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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contingencies ◴[29 Jun 25 16:28 UTC] No.44414317[source]▶
This is interesting for generalized problems ("make me a sandwich") but not useful for most real world functions ("perform x within y space at z cost/speed"). I think the number of people on the humanoid bandwagon trying to implement generalized applications is staggering right now. The physics tells you they will never be as fast as purpose-built devices, nor as small, nor as cheap. That's not to say there's zero value there, but really we're - uh - grasping at straws...
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1. ahmedbaracat ◴[29 Jun 25 16:39 UTC] No.44414389[source]▶
Well, there’s a middle ground, kinda. Using more specialized hardware (ex: cobots) but deploy state-of-art Physical AI (ML/Computer Vision) on them. We’re building one such startup at ko-br (https://ko-br.com/) :))
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2. contingencies ◴[29 Jun 25 17:05 UTC] No.44414613[source]▶
Quite a few startups in your space. Many deployed with customers. Good luck finding a USP!