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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot

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392 points lairv | 3 comments | 09 Oct 25 13:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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emporas ◴[09 Oct 25 18:18 UTC] No.45531207[source]▶
The era of intelligent robots is the end of washing machines and many other specialized machines, even tractors.

Two kinds of machinery are needed.

One very basic and cheap robot to go around the neighborhood and gather clothes in some boxes, and transfer them in a designated room to wash them.

Two state of the art robotic hands mounted on the wall, and connected to AC (no batteries). The two arms are going to be controlled by computers even a whole rack of them, with many GPUs in them. The whole setup might use 10KW of energy, it will wash clothes by hand, it will be fast, dexterous and accurate. Expensive as well. In 3 minutes it will wash 100 t-shirts much better than the best human on the planet, or any other non-intelligent machine.

Then the small basic robot returns the clothes to the house.

Same with cooking. Same with many other things.

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1. sgt ◴[09 Oct 25 18:58 UTC] No.45531661[source]▶
Yeah, why have a washing machine when you can just let your droid hand wash the dishes? At high enough temperatures and proper scrub that's likely going to be better and take less time.
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2. emporas ◴[09 Oct 25 19:09 UTC] No.45531782[source]▶
Not droid, just arms. If it needs to be fast, lift weights (just the arms or even more), have high quality cameras and be connected to a lot of compute, it needs AC from the grid.

AC wires, better not move around, especially when there is water. It has to be mounted on the wall.

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3. sgt ◴[10 Oct 25 17:55 UTC] No.45541818[source]▶
Sounds like a brilliant business idea... if you can get it to work. People would prefer this over conventional washing machines.

It might be a bit fragile though.