AI Robots Now Available from Amazon

Mitch86 said:
Amazon is now offering AI Robots for a mere $ 18,000. They could become a great help for the elderly who need 24/7 personal care. They probably can be trained to cook meals and to give personal physical care for elder humans who may otherwise need to enter a nursing home.
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AI unfortunately will/& already has displaced thousands of workers in various fields. Besides factories, AI does legal research, data mining, medical procedures,...to name a few.
 
BJintheUK said:
Has anyone here ever read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut? If so then you know he predicted this back in 1951 or so.
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The player piano and the many music boxes that played "music" without a human doing it. The machines could do it without a human, it just needs energy. Since that time we have refined and refined this process to the present time. Now you tell a computer to make a song, describe its parts and lyrics and the computer will produce a complete song, and it does it so well that many people can't tell it is digital.

We have thousands of machines doing our labor, but where it has become a big problem is how the automatic machine can affect our judgement. That started with the printing press. :)
 
PeppermintPatty said:
this is interesting. I didnā€™t under what robots would look like in 15 years. Maybe we could train one to help us when we get old. Who knows what will be available then.
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They are already in production and being tested in different environments. They are already being used in other countries like Japan. Currently they do have limitations for some tasks, but tech is advancing quickly to close the gaps. Safety is the key issue when placing them in homes, so they have to get it right, and know exactly what to expect in what may be chaotic environments.
 
The real big change will come when the Amazon Humanoid Robots start working in Amazon assembly lines to produce more Amazon Humanoid Robots. Then humans may become OBSOLETE!!

It could also affect marriages whereby many men and women will start taking those robots for spouses instead of marrying other humans.
 
Alice November said:
I still canā€™t believe they will be foolproof and not spill things and get it wrong somehow.
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They won't be foolproof. No new technology is, as these early automobiles and airplanes repeatedly demonstrated.

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It's getting harder and harder to tell which people on commercials are real and which are AI generated. I would guess that some people in the latest movies are AI generated. Same with music. Suno songs sound nearly human.

It would be nice to have an autonomous lawn mower so I could spend more time sitting on my butt and not have to go out into the heat to mow the lawn. Maybe a robot could walk the dog for me. My dog wouldn't mind.

What I'd really like is an autonomous drone that would terrorize the new neighbors across the street when they start making a bunch of noise with their mini bikes... maybe not with a deadly gun but it could just maybe shock them with enough voltage that would drive them into their house.
 
Thank you! I have no idea why that did not show up for me.

from that:
"For safety, it currently supports basic movements like walking, rotating, and handshakes,"
"This G1 model does NOT support secondary development or programming."

Not much of a senior caregiver, IMHO!
 
That Lady in PA said:
Thank you! I have no idea why that did not show up for me.

from that:
"For safety, it currently supports basic movements like walking, rotating, and handshakes,"
"This G1 model does NOT support secondary development or programming."

Not much of a senior caregiver, IMHO!
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The irony, of course, is that Amazon itself is reportedly testing programmable versions (G1-EDU edition) of the Unitree G1 for its own package delivery ambitions. So while you can buy a G1 that canā€™t be programmed, Amazon is busy programming G1s to one day bring you the G1 you just bought.

What the one offered on Amazon for $18K can do: Avoid obstacles, stand up from fall, Run in a 100m race, walk stairs, jumping and landing.

What the one offered on Amazon for $18K can not do (among other things): Sort goods, assemble products, fill and empty a dishwasher, fold clothes, thread a needle.

This effectively turns a potentially powerful robotics platform into what might be the worldā€™s most sophisticated and expensive influencer prop. As robotics expert Chris Paxton noted, the market for this specific unit seems to be content creators, not serious developers who would buy programmable versions directly from Unitree.

List of search results where I found the information:
AI robot $18000
Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot
 
Naturally said:
The irony, of course, is that Amazon itself is reportedly testing programmable versions (G1-EDU edition) of the Unitree G1 for its own package delivery ambitions. So while you can buy a G1 that canā€™t be programmed, Amazon is busy programming G1s to one day bring you the G1 you just bought.

What the one offered on Amazon for $18K can do: Avoid obstacles, stand up from fall, Run in a 100m race, walk stairs, jumping and landing.

What the one offered on Amazon for $18K can not do (among other things): Sort goods, assemble products, fill and empty a dishwasher, fold clothes, thread a needle.

This effectively turns a potentially powerful robotics platform into what might be the worldā€™s most sophisticated and expensive influencer prop. As robotics expert Chris Paxton noted, the market for this specific unit seems to be content creators, not serious developers who would buy programmable versions directly from Unitree.

List of search results where I found the information:
AI robot $18000
Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot
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IMO, those robots will be obsolete within a few years considering how fast technology is advancing, so at this point, only the uber-wealthy will be buying them. And they won't be used for anything useful; they'll just be status symbols.
 
RambleTamble said:
IMO, those robots will be obsolete within a few years considering how fast technology is advancing, so at this point, only the uber-wealthy will be buying them. And they won't be used for anything useful; they'll just be status symbols.
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Uber wealthy people can hire real humans.
 
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