Humanoid robots, like all technologies, will be adopted on an s-curve. First, there will be just a few of them, and then rapidly they will be everywhere, as their adoption heads for market saturation.
Are humanoid robots ready for their s-curve take off phase? Seeing Xpeng's IRON humanoid in action might make you think they are. Xpeng say they expect to start mass-producing these next year, and say they are investing $13.8 billion to scale production.
IRON's specs look impressive. Xpeng says it operates at 3,000 TOPS of processing power with their Turing AI chip. For reference, Microsoft's baseline for an AI PC is 40 TOPS (Trillions of Operations Per Second).
Xpeng's IRON robot demo at the Shanghai Motor Show highlights how fast robotics is advancing. Are humanoids ready for s-curve mass adoption?
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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What exactly did you find impressive about that video?
I feel like humanoid robots are a gimmick. It’s not the most efficient form factor, and honestly something walking around isn’t that impressive for me. It’s like the dog form security bots – they’re flashy and generate clicks/excitement but then? We’ve already had nonhumanoid form factor robots involved in automation for a while. I get the obsession with creating things that look like us, but for most use cases I think it’s a distraction. I do think long term home care support and other roles, having the humanoid form will have more valid use cases, but I still think we’re at least a decade from those being really ready for use. Until AIs approach something even somewhat resembling AGI they’re toys and marketing pieces, because what’s the point?
This looks pretty much like a taller Asimo, which was demoed by Honda in 2000. This is what we managed in a quarter of a century?
The robot part was never the hard part though? What does Turing do? Is it a fully functioning vla model?
The end of the human race is nearing faster. Combine these with AI and a real life Ultron is possible
Xpeng is everything teSSla wishes itself to be. Actual functioning robots, flying “cars” (actually cars strapped to drones but it exists), battery development. Only drawback is it’s Chinese. If it were an American company it would be the most valuable company in existence
>like all technologies
Unless this was sent from your Google Glass, I don’t want to hear it
It’s just a toy. They had them 25 years ago. But this one is on two legs instead of four, and is two orders of magnitude more expensive. AIBO remeber?
So a robot that can slowly and awkwardly walk, and do nothing else, is impressive how? I don’t mean to be rude, but there has to be more to see if we think they can do anything useful.
Sure, we can’t afford our mortgages or car payments, both individuals and governments are leveraged to the tits, but let’s all go buy some robots.