Comment by pj_mukh
5 days ago
Do I care? The job gets done and I don’t have to bother with letting someone physically into my home.
As a parent this seems godsent if it works as advertised just for its overnight reset.
Now if they can’t make the autonomy work to maintain the economics then I’d need an exit clause but other than that, have at it boss.
The risk is that this does not scale, they run out of money, the robot won't work any more, and you payed a lot for nothing.
Not for nothing. None of these companies are going to prioritize difficult physical prevention of you running your own OS, and there are already open source robotics companies where you can run your own stack. A lot of the brain hardware in these things is going to be Nvidia Jetson.
But you'd get to keep the robot, no?
Yea I would hope for sustainable teleop unit economics and then VC money for autonomy.
But I don’t need high percentage autonomy out of the box was my point.