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The video recordings give me the impression that piloting this robot to perform mundane household tasks is much more fun than doing so in real life.

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Doing it in real life ONCE is quite fun. The great things about computers is that you can solve a problem once and let the machine repeat it.

Having to do it everyday for years and not being able to do other things because of that is not fun at all.

with machine vision, it might be feasible to change the learning step to where instead of using joysticks to manipulate the robot through the steps, it can watch you 'do it once' then extrapolate the kinematics for its body just based on the end states of your hands or something

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