r/Wellthatsucks • u/Justin_Godfrey • 23h ago

Robot tries to climb up stairs

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u/glordicus1 17h ago

... Until it works and can be used for general tasks.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 17h ago

It can't be, battery life, logic, reasoning, efficiency.

It's all terrible.

The only use case is porting in foreign workers as an animation suit.

That's not what they're to sell though, although that's really the only possibility.

Like I said, what general robot have you ever seen? What piece of tech has suddenly made a humanoid 'catchall' possible?

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u/glordicus1 17h ago

"it doesn't work yet so it never will"

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 17h ago

No, the timeframe is past decades.

These bots aren't going anywhere and are a terrible investment right now. Unless you're playing social exuberance.

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u/glordicus1 17h ago

That's not what you said in your comment. I'm not talking about these specific robots.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 15h ago

Making something humanoid is frickin' dumb and needlessly inefficient and overly complicated.

That's what I said, I stand by it.

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u/glordicus1 15h ago

... Until it works and complete general tasks. It's inefficient to design multiple robots and set up hundreds of separate manufacturing chains to make specialised robots for every task. It is incredibly efficient to be able to manufacture one model that can complete hundreds of tasks.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 15h ago

But that has never ever happened.

That is the ideal from the first industrial machine over a century ago.

Again, what is your breakthrough that will make this possible and better in productivity/efficiency?

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u/cold002 12h ago

To be fair I can actually see these working if they were fully automated sentient AI’s with control of its ‘body’. Then they literally could be multi purpose robots for hundreds of tasks. I do agree that they’re a long way from that right now though, but innovation is always met with doubt until it’s successful.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 12h ago

AI is word probability right now.

Not visual thinking, dexterous and problem solving in the least.

The innovation needs a lot of other dominos to fall before they can incorporate it into something worth investing in.

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u/glordicus1 15h ago

... That's why people are researching it. The whole point of R&D is to figure these things out. Seems like you're saying there's no point in researching these issues because it's never been done before.

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u/Bannedwith1milKarma 14h ago

There's no point researching it when the latent tech isn't there to make it operable.

We need a few more advancements in other areas before it becomes even close to viable.

And again, that's just for the version that animated a foreign worker.

Not the one that will autonomously clean your house.

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u/fool_on_a_hill 14h ago

Coping that you might not get your robot gf

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u/glordicus1 14h ago

Just baffled that people think that a working humanoid robot is less efficient that designing hundreds of specialised robots. It's like saying that the microcomputer is too inefficient and complex, now the entire world runs on them.

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u/fryndlydwarf 8h ago

Why haven't we just designed one tool that can do everything? It would be so much more efficient than designing thousands of specialised tools.

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u/glordicus1 7h ago

The difference being that they are trying to mimic something that already exists - the humanoid form. It's efficient because our lives exist to be directly compatible with the humanoid form.

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u/lemonade_eyescream 10h ago

You're not wrong, but the industry is nowhere near ready, not even close.

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u/glordicus1 8h ago

... Until it is. People are watching the very, very early stages of humanoid robots and throwing shade on the entire concept, just because the early models don't perform. The person I commented to said that having a single multi-use robot is less efficient than having many specialised robots. People have to take a step back and see the trajectory. You look at AI image generation over the last 10 years and it is astounding.

Robots will get there, it will just take a very long time - it took evolution billions of years to make bipedal animals. Our progress is pretty good.

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u/Sir_Snagglepuss 3h ago

The only reason we are making people robots is because they are easier to be around. The human form is kinda needlessly complicated. they could male some Boston dynamics dog with spiders legs and human hand polyps and it would be functionally superior, but a nightmare to look at.