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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: 0.274s | source
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sksksk ◴[09 Oct 25 14:21 UTC] No.45528098[source]▶
The use cases in their videos are interesting, I suppose the world we live in is build for humans, so it makes sense to build a robot that is human shaped. So we don't need to buy new washing machines and redesign our house to get a robot maid.

The hotel reception use case seems ridiculous though, if you get rid of a human receptionist, you lose the human element of the check in process, which people like. If you're getting rid of the human and losing all the benefits of that, then just replace it with a kiosk (or mobile check in), which will do a far better job than a robot.

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1. numpad0 ◴[09 Oct 25 21:55 UTC] No.45533521[source]▶
Ridiculous, but ironically I think walking robots as self-relocating computers might be the most readily viable.

Small servers with console, PA speakers, field metrology or data acquisition machines, those things could have the lower torso or two for this and relocated as needed. The PhD guys can just park the truck and let those deploy wherever AI thinks >65% suitable for human use on their own, instead of users burning 15% of brain juice thinking and executing that. That would be immensely useful.

(also re: hotels that others are commenting, there were never technical reasons the door keycard readers couldn't ever had doubled as credit card readers - I think the reason why clerks are required is for sanity check, that the guests aren't in need of immediate safety/health assistance and ok to proceed to beds)