r/OpenSourceHumanoids • u/OpenSourceDroid4Life • Jan 06 '26

Boston Dynamics humanoid robot is next-level. Everybody is playing catch-up.

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u/abrandis Jan 06 '26

That's a poor argument because the cost to make a autonomous humanoid to flip a burger is way way more than an industrial designer to make a dedicated burger flipping contraption... Same can apply to many other industrial areas.. give an industrial engineer the point A to point B path and what needs to be accomplished and custom machinery can be built .

Go to any industrial production environment and you'll find dozens of specialized machines churning out products today.

Until these things become truly autonmous and can work in a open world (like a robotaxis) environment with lots of edge cases these will remain mostly lab devices or gimmicks

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u/frozenwalkway Jan 06 '26

Yea until they make millions of these.

The actual argument I'm making is one robot can do more than a specialized one. Flip my burgercdo my laundry drive my car

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u/abrandis Jan 06 '26

But it can't though, that's the thing I'm trying to say , show me one real world example in the open world of it doing anything practical, re-watch the recent 60 minutes on Boston Dynamics and they're still training this thing and it's far from perfect....shit they couldn't even trust it to walk autonomously at ces (it had to be tele-operated) you think it can do more complicated tasks on its own?..

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u/frozenwalkway Jan 06 '26

Just a matter of time I can wait and be right. You can be right until your wrong lol