• MajorHavoc
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    5 days ago

    Yeah. Which I’m sure is what they’re officially selling. That’s fair. Long term, walking robots are likely only going to succeed thanks to learning algorithms.

    I find it suspicious that this company is touting their AI enhancement while admitting their product can’t be trusted to navigate an apartment alone.

    Personally, I would select homes with simple layouts, before conceding to constant monitoring, if I could. But I couldn’t do that if my mix of math and AI was outright bad, and it couldn’t handle it…

    To me, this smells like over-promising and hoping new AI algorithms outpace their promises.

    And having a remote operator just looks like a lot like a classic mechanical turk scam.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 days ago

      Yeah, that was just a nitpick. Sorry, this looks like a scam otherwise; I should have been clearer about that.

      Aside from getting your clients sci-fi rocks off, why would you even go with humanoid legs? Some basic wheel-leg combination that can climb stairs would make way more sense in an indoor context. And that’s not even getting into the non-robot maid ways to automatically water plants and vacuum, which are the two cited tasks it can do.