planned $499 per month subscription
lol
taking bets on how long it will take for this to become abandonware
I bet it never even makes it to market. Now robots will for sure, but these first ones out of the gate types rarely make it.
They’re replacing underpaid immigrant workers with underpaid overseas workers remotely controlling a crummy robot, while some rich techbro asshole in the middle skims off almost all the money. I do hope they fail with this stupid idea, but your techbro will already have made off with the money for their next startup scam.
I do chores for less than that.
And I’m fuckable.
Are you though?
I am fully functional and programmed in multiple techniques.
How much do you charge for fucking vs. chores?
…and then doing the fucking chores?
I’m asking for a sick friend.
Why do they keep insisting on humanoid? Just give me the crushinator to do chores for $10,000.
Because a humanoid robot can theoretically do all the things humans can do, using appliances designed for humans to operate.
Non-humanoids can theoretically do that too.
“Non-humanoids” is an incredibly broad description. For example, a Roomba can’t empty your dishwasher. But a humanoid robot can use your existing human vacuum to clean the floors.
Yes that’s the whole point. They’re forcibly thinking in humanoid forms, while I dont care about form, I care about function. Make shit that’s useful, and I dont care what package it comes in. In the vast majority of use cases it’s incredibly cumbersome to have it in bipedal form; you to have reserve cpu power/mechanics/power for balance and shit, while not at all necessary for the tasks at hand.
Yes that’s the whole point
…what? Is your point?
I dont care about form, I care about function
They are largely the same in this case.
You said non-humanoid is a broad description like it’s a negative. It’s not. Fixating on making the robot humanoid unnecessarily narrows it down. Form and function are by definition not the same, so I don’t understand what you mean by that. But I’m got going to stop because it seems.you’re intentionally obtuse.
You said non-humanoid is a broad description like it’s a negative.
No, I said it like it’s a meaningless phrase.
Fixating on making the robot humanoid unnecessarily narrows it down.
Its not a fixation. Its simple logic that I’ve already explained. Everything we own is designed to be used by humans, so creating a humanoid robot makes them extremely versatile.
Form and function are by definition not the same
That’s not correct at all. Function is very largely tied to form, especially in the case of robotics.
I felt like robo simian made sense for versatility. I can see some thing that is more like a carbon atom so it can naturally tripod but can go to 2 or even one limb as base and have more grasping limbs.
But can you fuck it?
Asking for a friend.
I’m the friend.
Bullshit
Nah, not bullshit. Just doesn’t do them without remote human control. That falls under “features to he introduced at a later date.”
“Our company is cooler than X because we put a ‘1’ in front of it.”
