"is designed with a focus on companionship, according to EngineAI. Equipped with a large language model, it supports intelligent interaction and includes high-fidelity speakers and dual high-definition cameras for voice conversation and gesture recognition."
EngineAI's SA02 is much like a dozen or more 2025 humanoid robots currently being developed around the world. It's mastered moving around with agility, and you can talk to it via an LLM AI. Can it do much more? We'll see. Most 2025 humanoid robots are still taking baby steps when it comes to being useful workers, that can do simple tasks like folding laundry.
But has EngineAI spotted a gap in the market by focusing on companionship? Hundreds of thousands of people already have AI boyfriends and girlfriends. This will provide the identical AI, while also giving those AI friends real 3D bodies. Question – if you're truly in love with your AI boy/girlfriend, would you spend the extra money to give them a body?
EngineAI to launch SA02, a $5,500 humanoid robot aimed at young people
The rise of the robot boy/girlfriend? A new humanoid robot is being primarily marketed as a $5,500 companion for young people.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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They think “young people” can afford to spend $5,500 on a companion robot? 🤣
>Question – if you’re truly in love with your AI boy/girlfriend, would you spend the extra money to give them a body?
If I fell in love with jar jar binx I’d certainly want a C3PO body for him!
Oh yeah, someone wants a $5000 embodied robot companion so they can *talk* to it. Sure.
Does anybody else think of the robot girlfriend PSA from futurama?
https://youtu.be/JPQJBgWwg3o?si=9BFMnHnf9Tw9Kous
Call me robophobic but I don’t want a partner that has built in speakers and camera
a robot boy girlfriend sounds like it’s targeting a pretty precise demographic
Q: How much of that “video of the robot” was rendered?
You know this is basically one of the Black Mirror episodes, right?
Pretty sure Trump will be buying these young robots up.. and you know, release the goddamn files
I actually wonder if in the future, if any of us will actually be able to compete with AI/robotic partners. If one of these comes along that can load the dishwasher correctly (and listens better, is better looking, etc…), my wife would probably ditch me pretty quickly.
Just give me a Roomba with a fleshlight on it and we’ll call it good.
Zero-turn lawnmower are expensive. I have a couple push mowers. Can this thing mow my lawn?
Always remember that if this company goes out of business, or just decides you should buy a newer model, you now have a $5,550 paper weight. Might as well just get a really big rock, stick it in your living room and call it your new friend. Tape the rock to a laptop with an AI running and you’re good to go!
This reads like someone trying to convince shareholders that this will be the next big thing.
Honestly, good. Keep the kind of men who want one of these away from literally all women ever. It’s better this way.Â
I would pay 20 grand for a robot I could control with a VR headset.
The other day someone asked why chores are fun in a video game but awful in real life. The truth is body fatigue.
Think of how much drywall I could install with a robot body that never got tired. Like playing a video game! Or mowing the lawn. Let the robot get swamp ass. I want to sit inside the air conditioned house.
A VR labor robot would be the bees knees. The worst part about chores isn’t the actions. It’s the exhaustion.
And who knows. Maybe ai could do that work eventually too. But I’d be fine just manual.
5500 is infinitely cheaper than a real gf/wife/prostitute.
Watch it require an online connection to function, then when the company changes/fails and bricks them all causing total chaos.
Very thrilled that the type of person who is likely to use this will never reproduce.