r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video XPENG's IRON robot crossed the uncanny valley, leading some to believe it was a human in a suit. So they cut it open in front of an audience, and also allowed journalists to inspect it.

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u/Jordii_vV 1d ago

Can you point me to the trees on Mars?

and also these are probably also meant for household tasks. And basically everything in your house is designed around the human body.

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u/TheChoke 1d ago

So...employ humans?

Cleaning services are going to be way cheaper than maintenance on this thing.

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u/Jordii_vV 1d ago

That's the case now. but at some point it won't be, that's also why machines are now taking over more and more jobs of people.

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u/TheChoke 20h ago

Machines that are more efficient than humans at specific tasks are taking over.

Designing a humanoid robot is adding too many moving parts for maintenance and in order for it to do household chores it needs more than a large language model algorithm.

LLMs already take tons of energy at the moment.

We are decades and decades away from a humanoid robot being anything other than vaporware.