Bytes & Backpacks #125 🦌
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of a new humanoid robot designed for home assistance and the challenges of remote control in robotics.
I ordered a robot to take care of us at home. Does it still sound like science fiction? It can collect laundry, do the washing, empty the dishwasher, tend the garden, fetch beer from the fridge... Pre-orders for its humanoid robot Neo have started – you can get one for $500 a month (with delivery in the US sometime next year), which is a very attractive price tag. Will it be a revolution? Or is it just hype? So far, it looks like most of the robot’s activities are controlled remotely from a monitoring center. This will certainly be the standard for all such solutions at the beginning. The important thing is whether it will be possible to automate most activities once, or whether you will always have a robot controlled by someone from a control center. Remote control of robots is nothing new, as Elon demonstrated at his event with Optimus, and incidentally, we at M2C see this as a huge opportunity, because we have just such a control center in Europe. But we all kind of wish it would go further... The American style of “Fake it until you make it” is starting to get a little out of hand in the age of AI and robotics, but what kind of early adopter would I be if I didn’t click…
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