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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: 0s | source
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cooper_ganglia ◴[09 Oct 25 17:52 UTC] No.45530893[source]▶
Crazy to me how negative the comments are here. None of this was even remotely possible less than 5 years ago. Now, we're demoing consumer-facing robotics that will soon, within a couple iterations, be able to perform most of your household tasks without issue.

The frog boils quickly.

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phkahler ◴[09 Oct 25 17:58 UTC] No.45530966[source]▶
>> Now, we're demoing consumer-facing robotics that will soon, within a couple iterations, be able to perform most of your household tasks without issue.

Turns out they're either insanely expensive or they just can't actually learn on the fly and do tasks. This is the Nth time I've seen a robot folding a shirt but never in a cluttered room or taken from a pile of laundry.

I figured the first AI robots would be pets, but apparently they're aren't even that good yet. Furby level isn't going to cut it.

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1. cooper_ganglia ◴[09 Oct 25 18:22 UTC] No.45531251[source]▶

  >This is the Nth time I've seen a robot folding a shirt
This is precisely what I mean. These systems aren't perfect, and won't be widely usable in the home for several more years, but this is the worst they'll ever be! This is the first glimpse of a future without the need of physical human labor, for better or worse.

We're watching robots intelligently find a shirt, figure out how to fold it relative to its position, and then parse all that data, tokenizing both vision + text instructions into actionable movements that actually result in the physical world being affected!

All this, and people are criticizing it's manufacturing cost or ability to do things it hasn't been explicitly trained to do in 2025. I see these things and don't think about 2025, I'm thinking about 2040 and the inevitable future we're diving into.