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AI Robots – When will they be in our homes

24 points andsoitis 7 hours ago 15 comments

Founderarcstone 7 hours ago | parent

I hope soon as I would enjoy a new dish washer every day!

Mohamed_Amineio 6 hours ago | parent

hahaha i guess you might find one soon in your house

solnyshok 4 hours ago | parent

first, they will be in our warehouses. because cost and payoff.

grugagag 4 hours ago | parent

Non humanoid robots are already in warehouses in some varying capacity. Humanoid robots aren't really versatile enough to be general purpose but I suppose they're a possibility in the future. All I can imagine is that if they're made safe enough to be around other humans they'll have to be quite dumb in a sense (except for the ones around the war industry)

sashank_1509 4 hours ago | parent

End of the decade is my prediction. We are there GPT Astra shows signs of it. Give it a few more generations. Now if AI robot with compute onboard the robot, that might be multiple decades away, I don’t see compute becoming that abundant and small anytime soon

bhhaskin 2 hours ago | parent

Don't even need compute onboard, just on site. And something I control and own.

blackfawn 4 hours ago | parent

Wow, the way this site scrolls and pollutes the browser history is pretty terrible! I gave up trying to go back and just closed it and started a new tab

zzo38computer 4 hours ago | parent

If you disable JavaScripts then you will get a non-interactive version (with a note that says you can enable JavaScripts for the interactive version), so you might try that.

godelski 4 hours ago | parent

I love the idea of robot helpers but I don't love the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space.

I do not think people are even recognizing the security ramifications of these devices. A picture of your key is enough to replicate it[0], and yet we're just going to put these devices everywhere? LLMs have been pretty easy to jailbreak too, you think thieves aren't just going to get these robots to open the doors for them? Or what about governments? Even if you trust your government now, will you trust them with data where they can literally see everything you do and say? That's well beyond 1984. Or just what about what we see from top labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, or even Google and Apple? These trillion dollar companies are not showing themselves to be good at protecting data. Obviously some better than others, but this is a whole new level of intimacy with the data they'll get. Everyone is pissed at Flock, and you want to put mobile Flock in your house?

No thanks, it isn't worth trading all that for not having to load up the dish washer and cook my own meals.

I can't believe these discussions aren't more common.

[0] https://github.com/makalin/KeyForge3D

zzo38computer 3 hours ago | parent

I also don't like the idea of putting cameras all over my house and having ad companies surveil my intimate space, and I also don't like to add further things that require electrical power, and/or that make noise, etc. This is in addition to the security ramifications that you describe and that you don't describe, and other issues.

cloudbonsai 2 hours ago | parent

People also underestimate how dangerous those humanoid robots are. They are hilariously breaking every OSHA rule written by human blood.

Many contemporary humanoid robots do not even have an e-stop and this is why you see clips where people frantically try to stop an unstable robot by grabbing it. At the moment, it’s a solution searching for a problem and blood.

woggy 3 hours ago | parent

Sunday Robotics has a beta program planned for end of year

aakritpatel 2 hours ago | parent

What format is this post in? One or even half a line per image. Why? It's like watching those short form video content but in text format. Is this for getting more scroll depth?

deepfriedchokes 2 hours ago | parent

Time on page is an SEO thing.

aakritpatel 2 hours ago | parent

Yeah. I just didn't expect this from something like IEEE.