Comment by yurimo
2 days ago
I don't know, there has been so many overhyped and faked demos in humanoid robotics space over the last couple years, it is difficult to believe what is clearly a demo release for shareholders. Would love to see some demonstration in a less controlled environment.
I suppose the next big milestone is Wozniak's Coffee Test: A robot is to enter a random home and figure out how to make coffee with whatever they have.
That could still be decades away.
I don't know... I'm starting to seriously think that is only 5-10 years away.
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Imagine they bring one out to a construction site and they treat the robot as a new rookie guy, go pick up those pipes. That would be an ultimate on the fly test to me.
Picking up a bundle of loose pipes actually seems like a great benchmark for humanoid robots. Especially if they're not in a perfect pile. A full test could be something like grabbing all the pipes, from the floor, and putting them into a truck bed, in some (hopefully) sane fashion
I have my personal multimodal benchmark for physical robots.
You put a keyring with bunch of different keys in front of a robot and then instruct it pick it up and open a lock while you are describing which key is the correct one. Something like "Use the key with black plastic head and you need to put it in teeths facing down"
I have low hopes of this being possibe in the next 20 years. I hope I am still alive to witness if it ever happens.
pick up that can, heh heh heh