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GlenTheMachinetoday at 12:05 AM3 repliesview on HN

Roboticist here. All of this, and he didn’t mention compliance or online adaptation to otherwise un-sensable dynamics. Or massively complex miniature mechanisms.

Current generation tactile sensors cost a couple thousand $ PER FINGER, and have a real world MTBF of hours. The cost can be solved with economy of scale. The fragility is harder.


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choonwaytoday at 3:50 AM

yep. and with the western funding model, how many hardware iterations can you do before you run out of runway?

Onavotoday at 2:01 AM

> Current generation tactile sensors cost a couple thousand $ PER FINGER, and have a real world MTBF of hours. The cost can be solved with economy of scale. The fragility is harder.

Are we talking about experimental laboratory ones here? What happens when the Alibaba players start getting into the game? They have plenty of humanoid robots.

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UltraSanetoday at 12:50 AM

I'm picturing humanoid robots having to operate in pairs so they can constantly fix each other.

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