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11mo ago

You’ll need to teach this $16,000 humanoid robot how to make breakfast

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You’ll need to teach this $16,000 humanoid robot how to make breakfast

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11mo ago

You’ll need to teach this $16,000 humanoid robot how to make breakfast

www.theverge.com /2024/8/19/24223629/unitree-g1-robot-humanoid-price-release

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$16,000 for a breakfast robot? for that kind of money, i could just go through the McDonald's drive through for a week
- Thank you, thank you, I'm here all week
and even flip foods in a frying pan.
Can’t wait to holler at robo-Jeeves for fucking up my eggs over easy.
- This is canonically how the robot takeover in the Matrix starts
  
  This comment gives me a realization that we would definitely treat robots like slaves if they became sentient
  
  There's also a robot takeover in the Orville when they build guns that come out of their heads.
  
  Ah shit I'm going to have to find this scene in the movies
- They're gearing up the combat capable models to roll out to Waffle House
  
  Here is your bill. You owe 8.17. You have 20 seconds to comply... You now have 15 seconds to comply...
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5jJcQOmfkI
- I think there are legitimate uses such as elderly care, and a lot of manual jobs that can be automated in this way. Especially given increasing aging population.
I refuse
I can't even get a robot to vacuum my house without choking to death on pet hair, but okay, I'm sure this will work.
Humanoid robots belong in the trash
CW: Star Wars, 1h+ YT video.
- I do think humanoid robots have fairly limited application. In any scenario, like a factory, where you can just design it around automation from ground up, it's much easier to do that instead. The only place I see humanoid robots being useful is in environments that are specifically designed around humans. For example, I can see these potentially be useful for elderly care.
  
  As someone who works with robots for a living, please please please stop suggesting this. It is also pretty clear you haven't spent any time with the elderly. Please don't make me talk to the robot when I get old, getting old is hard enough, I don't want to be dropped by the robot and then left on the ground for 3 hours because they have used the robot as an excuse to understaff even more than they already do.

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