alt Hacker NewsIs anyone building non-humanoid robots? Feels like humanoid is limiting the creativity of building a truly useful robot in today's age
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numpad0 • today at 4:40 PM
ABB, EPSON, FANUC, Kawasaki... Virtually every cars in past 50-60 years have had robots and some form of AI involved in assembly. Some of them already support standard humanoid/dogbot tools in their products.
Humanoid startup execs just don't talk about that.
nope1000 • today at 4:27 PM
In the Xiaomi Model Demo, they have non-humanoid robots
Humanoid robots can be dropped in wherever human labor is currently used.
That makes them extremely easy to sell to industry. This unlocks, in principle, a large chunk of the potential untapped industrial automation market that still relies on human labor because the ROI of redesigning production lines didn't make sense.