yeah where’s the robot that picks up cat poop and wipes the floor with disinfectant? Where’s the robot that loads and empties the dishwasher? where’s the robot that puts away the clean washing?
Roomba’s about as good as we can do with current tech
Tags made me rethink this whole situation. We DO have a robot who does the dishes for us. She’s called a dishwasher. Wow.
oh hey, hi! yeah i get you, but then what’s the point of google and other big tech names wasting so much time on object recognition? idk, just seems to me like the physicality (i mean like the movement, precision grip, and strength control) of the robot would, at this stage in our technology, be the larger obstacle to overcome?
oh hey, hi! yeah i get you, but then what’s the point of google and other big tech names wasting so much time on object recognition?
Improving their search engine to search for things in pictures and videos, mostly.
The PITA is that you need a lot of processing power on Google’s servers to make it work. This isn’t going to be cost effective unless you pay a pretty big subscription fee to Google so your robot can use their servers.
Meanwhile, there is zero market motivation for making an in-home version of this technology until the code can fit in a $1000 Nvidia Jetson or equivalent.
Oh yeah, and you’re not needing to just identify and manage plates, you have to deal with dirty plates, which have a huge variety of appearances. That’s where you need the huge processing power.
idk, just seems to me like the physicality (i mean like the movement, precision grip, and strength control) of the robot would, at this stage in our technology, be the larger obstacle to overcome?
Those, along with 3D depth perception and spatial awareness, are also huge problems.
People just don’t give the human brain enough credit.
We have robots with the dexterity, precision, and (I can’t think of the technical word for “soft touch”) to do surgery and assemble machinery at the nanometer scale. Dishes wouldn’t be that hard. The actual reason we don’t have them is it’s not cost-effective/profitable on a consumer scale.
