Robotics and humanoid robotics & civilian drones discussion

tankphobia said:

It's only a matter of time until cleaning robots grow to the size of the dock themselves and become vastly more capable mobile and endurance wise. I'm already seeing the beginning of a general purpose cleaning robot from dreame here. The market is huge.

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yes, I need to actually get one. Dreame robots look fantastic, but they actually all do.

Glenn was showing me his ecovacs window cleaner the other time. It was pretty good too.

tankphobia said:

It's only a matter of time until cleaning robots grow to the size of the dock themselves and become vastly more capable mobile and endurance wise. I'm already seeing the beginning of a general purpose cleaning robot from dreame here. The market is huge.

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Big problem with the current crop of vacuum robots is the difficulty of integrating the dock with a fill and drainage system. Laundry room lacks space, kitchen is not designed for it. Then you would also need this for all floors in your house.

tphuang said:

yes, I need to actually get one. Dreame robots look fantastic, but they actually all do.

Glenn was showing me his ecovacs window cleaner the other time. It was pretty good too.

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The Ecovacs window cleaner is not great with edge detection since it relies on basically a bump sensor and optical encoder wheel. It has trouble with frameless glass and windows with shallow subframes

Where is the a robot that cleans the toilet? I suppose smart toilet can clean the inside of the bowl, but exterior and seat still has no solution.

supersnoop said:

Big problem with the current crop of vacuum robots is the difficulty of integrating the dock with a fill and drainage system. Laundry room lacks space, kitchen is not designed for it. Then you would also need this for all floors in your house.

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Yeah, the tank system is not going away any time soon. That's why I'm advocating for larger all in one systems and ditch the dock entirely. Bigger robot that move over to a sink and self drain/refill for example.

tankphobia said:

Yeah, the tank system is not going away any time soon. That's why I'm advocating for larger all in one systems and ditch the dock entirely. Bigger robot that move over to a sink and self drain/refill for example.

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Too big and they won't fit under or move around furniture

PeoplesPoster said:

Too big and they won't fit under or move around furniture

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How does a human normally clean the house then? Imagine the same level of flexibility on a robot.

@vincent look at this video.

Unitree vs Boston Dynamics

sunnymaxi said:

@vincent look at this video.

Unitree vs Boston Dynamics

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010295183968256173

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Did parts fall off the Boston Dynamics robot? Imagine if this happened to a Chinese made robot. Reddit cucks will be parroting Temu Bot till the end of time…

I'm going to post a longer X thread on this but the level of Chinese AI robotic or edge AI development is just humongous. And you see it in Alibaba Qwen's smart hardware exhibitions. So many cool little stuff they are showcasing.

Dreame showcasing its home service robot. This is kind of what I see home service robot really should look like.

I wrote a long thread here on all the products that got showcased at the recent Qwen hardware exhibition. It's a really long list and showcases just how many startups and entrepreneurs are working on embodied AI solutions.