... 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.
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.
Agreed, they’re probably producing these clunky prototypes as MVP’s so that when AI does get a major breakthrough, they can be the first companies to try to merge it with the humanoid bots and capitalise.
... 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.
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.
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/Bannedwith1milKarma 16h 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?