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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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392 points lairv | 1 comments | 09 Oct 25 13:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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dpcx ◴[09 Oct 25 13:40 UTC] No.45527553[source]▶
Maybe it's just me, but everything about this announcement feels very I, Robot... and not in a good way.

> allowing the entire fleet to upload terabytes of data for continuous learning and improvement

Ugh.

Edit: Yes, I meant I, Robot the film. U.S. Robotics and the like.

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causal ◴[09 Oct 25 14:08 UTC] No.45527947[source]▶
Yeah tech companies have a weird fixation on using dystopian literature as their entire branding playbook
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1. browningstreet ◴[09 Oct 25 14:38 UTC] No.45528327[source]▶
Dystopian literature was training data and road-mapping.