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Robotics has been completely transformed in the last six months, check out this Figure video from yesterday

Robotics is dead. Long live robotics.

https://x.com/Figure_robot/status/1767913661253984474?s=20

It's easy to make a cool looking demo with robots, even one that runs right in front of you in person. Making a video is basically nothing, though, too much cherry-picking. Anyone that works with robots will just assume you have burned a lot of time repeating takes to cover up all of the failures. For the rubber to meet the road you chop that scope way, way, waaaaaaaaaaay down to make a robot do something useful.

Maybe this new ML wave will bring about a more generally useful robot, it certainly feels like it will at least open up a ton of new avenues for R&D.

That's fake man. But yeah, I checked out those jobs ;) They certainly know what to do. Just not how.

Why do you call it fake?

well, CGI as opposed to footage of a physical robot doing those things shown. They forgot the: *for inspirational purposes only

how did I not notice this obvious greenscreen composition!? it is!

I’m willing to bet a million dollars there was no CGI in figures recent video. What video are you even talking about??

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