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Yes we are. It’s all very recent and physical AI is exploding now. Here is literally a 3 hour autonomous stream of a robot folding and stacking clothes.

https://youtu.be/a2HZyURUE_o?is=2fCIZRpNxkCFP-83

Is this an actual, real example, or is the robot being operated by an off-screen human being ?

Autonomous

Those folds are bad, I like my folds tighter than that

Good for you, literally everyone else will take this fold over doing laundry themselves.

Touche, a more or less decent pool robot cleaner is around 3k and doesn't last more than a few years without changing every part but the case itself. Ok I take it - it operates in somewhat "hostile" environment but the point still stands

Back in my day (80's-90's), our Polaris vac-sweep was pretty simple reliable. Late stage capitalism / neoliberalism made it worse.

It didn't need an LLM or deep learning to do its job because it would randomly crawl around so long that it was on. I don't understand adding complexity, fragility, or cost to a solved problem, but I guess there are enough people who engage in competitive conspicuous consumption to signal status.

Roombas have been a thing for many years, long before the current llm craze.

And they are completely useless.