They still have the hockey stick around as a reminder to Atlas.

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    5 days ago

    Yeah, but I just don’t see a use case for a humanoid robot, a standard robot arm could do the job in the video. Robots are better when designed for specific jobs.

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      4 days ago

      Current robots are better when designed for a specific job, but that means only corps with enough scale can afford robots

      What about much smaller companies that can’t afford to design and build a robot for a specific task? There are thousands of these companies, doing things at smaller scale so not able to automate. However a robot with similar capabilities to a human, that could be trained like a human, and doesn’t cost like an industrial robot, can fill in for a human at all of these companies

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        4 days ago

        I mean in the far distant future… yeah I agree.

        But back to preset times, when robots like these are cheap enough for a small company to buy over hiring someone, then it will be cheap enough to buy custom robots too.