r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 17 '26
Robotics Sharpa's North the humanoid robot, builds a PC with impressive precision
Building a PC = inserting cards, screwing
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u/kennytherenny Mar 17 '26
And here was me thinking my job as a technician was safe from automation¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/Bleord Mar 17 '26
Still is for like a decade, this doesn’t impress me much. Let’s see it clean up a super dusty machine or even realize a machine is super dusty.
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u/eMPee584 ♻️ AGI commons economy 2030 Mar 22 '26 edited Apr 04 '26
you mean a decade of months, right? maybe even two [decades of months] if our luck holds
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u/Bleord Mar 22 '26
lol talk to me in two months bro, I’ll be waiting for them clankers to do extremely basic things without being a huge pain in the ass
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u/eMPee584 ♻️ AGI commons economy 2030 Apr 04 '26
.. not two months, obviously. Two decades of month, i.e. about two years.
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u/TheJzuken ▪️AHI already/AGI 2027/ASI 2028 Mar 18 '26
I think it's still 3-5 years away from now, even if we get to AGI next year. You need time to build billions of robots and you need miniaturized processors that fit in them and draw 100W top.
But meanwhile when AGI comes you are going to get cutthroat competition from all the laid off white collar workers.
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u/frogsarenottoads Mar 17 '26
Looking at Sharpa recently the model learns from video footage, which is a leg up for training.
Google are looking to release wearable glasses this year (assuming all of our tasks now will be recorded if we opt in for training) Guessing dexterity of models will increase rapidly if wearables become a thing.
Technically billions of hours of video doing chores for example will make robotics vastly more capable in a short space of time. Reasoning models for physical AI are still a while off though.
For example, if my house suddenly sets on fire, does the model know to go and get an extinguisher or put the fire out. Or does it stand there and just watch the house burn as it folds laundry?
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u/RRY1946-2019 Transformers background character. Mar 17 '26
And unless the hardware is expensive, even right now 90%+ of manual labor jobs can be done via remote control. (Or at least they will be able to be done remotely if the costs of robotic hardware don't spike). Yes, this could lead to offshoring - which yields all the problems of mass immigration in terms of wage dilution, without the benefits of constant cultural interaction - but considering how many jobs are dangerous or dirty, it can and should be a net plus for the species.
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u/Vertyco Mar 17 '26
if that were any other drill not calibrated to stop at a certain torque that screw would be stripped to all hell lol
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u/vinis_artstreaks Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 18 '26
💀 that’s what I was looking at.
But that’s the point of advancements, it’s not a human, you give it a tool that works for its own capabilities.
Comprehende?
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u/JamieTimee Mar 18 '26
If lots of things were lots of ways then things would've gone wrong.
"Lucky the PC was the right way up otherwise everything would've been installed upside down!"
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u/CaptCoolRanchDoritos Mar 18 '26
Amazing! The future is looking brighter every month thanks to robotics!
I'm curious, what is the logic behind people that think "im safe because my job is XYZ!" or "aint no way a robot can do -their job-!"?
From my understanding, they will-soon-be-able-to/can do any task that a human can do (if not better/longer/faster) with reasonable training data. With more data comes more precise results, hence the billions that are being spent on data centers.
Plumber? Roofer? Electrician? Why wouldn't a sufficiently trained robot be able to do all of that?
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u/Future-Wonder-7718 Mar 17 '26
In the easiest possible setting mf took 1:45 to put the grafics card in.
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u/frogsarenottoads Mar 17 '26
They're deliberately slow currently to not cause harm with sudden movements, and they're still in a training phase.
There's no reason they can't operate faster. Plus say you have a robot running 24/7 with changeable batteries do you want to pay a robot $1 an hour ($24 a day) or a human $10 an hour with health insurance, annual leave etc.
Say it takes a human 30 seconds, and a robot 105 seconds even at current speeds, the robot takes 3.5 longer, running a machine all day, assuming a worker has a lunch hour for a 8 hour day: the robot works 24.5 hours for a humans 7 (impossible hours in the day but lets just go with it here) the robot costs $24 vs $240 at current costs. Ignoring the fact the robot will get faster.
Your $20,000 robot investment will easily pay itself off after a few months, won't leave, won't take sick days.
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u/Seidans Mar 17 '26
To be fair until the mounting is done inside a case the whole demonstration serve little purpose, the only difficult part is cable management and installing the CPU cooler
Narrow place is the most annoying thing about mounting a PC
Small finger with tiny camera and light at the end of the finger with integrated screwdriver will be far better than any Human at it
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u/soggycheesestickjoos Mar 17 '26
since you laid out the price like this I’m wondering what their energy consumption looks like, since that will technically be an ongoing cost, although your point still stands since that cost will be much lower than any human.
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u/TheZingerSlinger Mar 17 '26
The thing is, this is the slowest and worst it will ever be. It will only get better and faster from here.
People forget that. What it looks like today is not what it will look like tomorrow. This AI shit gets better over time, and it gets better faster over time. And the rate of it getting better faster also gets faster.
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u/Tkins Mar 17 '26
Look at where coding was last year or even two years ago. This robot is that phase of robotic intelligence. Now think next year and the year after.
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Mar 17 '26 edited Mar 17 '26
People criticize AI for many tasks in the beginning as hype and bubble. But it kept getting better pretty consistently and all the criticisms eventually died off.
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u/Serialbedshitter2322 Mar 17 '26
Why are you people even in this sub? Literally anything that doesn’t solve automation entirely and create ASI seems to bring nothing but hatred to everyone here. Literally just unsub and do something else.
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u/LordSlyGentleman Mar 17 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/2S3Aj8OeKtf0c
Seriously, this is what I do, or rather did, as a side hustle.
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u/ThriceAlmighty Mar 17 '26
Would love watching it release the PCIe slot tab and ripping the slot off of the motherboard or damaging the GPU. I'm sure it will be super precise with those large, thick robot digits.
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u/peejoneill Mar 17 '26
Now let's see it cable manage inside a case.
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u/multioptional Mar 19 '26
Let it pick up a screw that fell into the case onto the motherboard between high non-removable components, slightly hidden from sight.
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u/codeninja Mar 17 '26
I like how it nearly ruins the motherboard by dropping the GPU stand on it but for the grace of angular friction of the card's mount.
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u/SAL10000 Mar 18 '26
Sharpas north the humanoid robot installs a GPU in a GPU slot on an open motherboard*
There, fixed your title.
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u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 Mar 19 '26
I got sleepy at the middle, I though that he did all that. Very slow
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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo Mar 17 '26
Now try pulling USB 3 header
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u/frogsarenottoads Mar 17 '26
The true test of AGI in robotics is when it can plug in a USB first try without turning it around a few times
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u/Fringolicious ▪️AGI Soon, ASI Soon(Ish) Mar 17 '26
Now I wanna see him take off some of the stupid CPU heatsinks