Filtered for home robots, fast and slow (Interconnected)
TidyBot, a research “mobile manipulator” from Princeton, successfully puts away 85.0% of objects in real-world test scenarios.
it would pick up all the toys and tidy them away, shelve any books, and find the TV remote control and put it back in the regular place.
Or, having used my credit card to buy material, knowing that today’s AIs can already author web apps, build furniture: hey siri make me a table.
It can recognise a competing hand gesture in 1 millisecond and move its own hand to make the winning gesture to complete at the same time.
At a certain point in the future, it will be cheaper for me to purchase a superhumanly quick catching robot to follow me around in case I drop my iPhone versus buying AppleCare in case of a shattered screen.
I have started an experiment where housekeeping robots work autonomously based on the conditions inside the home. When the washing machine finishes drying, the walking laundry basket goes ahead and waits in the laundry area. I’m letting ChatGPT handle the decision-making process.
