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Comment by brk | Hacker News Reader

This is not going to happen any time soon. The acquisition cost and ongoing maintenance issues alone limit the practical market of home robots to a tiny segment of the market.

As neat as the idea sounds, the practicalities and edge cases keep this in the science fiction category right now and for the foreseeable future.

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People have more money than sense so at the very least, it will be another piece of junk that accumulates in peoples garages but at the very best it could serve some niche for some people.

Bipedal humanoid robot platforms are a terrible design.

Even if the thing fell over it could inflict serious injury. =3

Have you seen that Chinese Robot walking around American Cities?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UpXKZEgrB6Q

There was a clip where it almost fell down a set of stairs but it caught itself. I cant seem to find it.

There is this though: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8Drm_v3_iG4

Indeed, part of the design problem is the platform is inherently unstable, and energy inefficient.

Giant robotic house spiders make far more sense. =3

You can put the hash in a regular youtube URL to avoid the annoying Shorts interface and get back full functionality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpXKZEgrB6Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Drm_v3_iG4

It took less than 20 yrs for roomba's, things have to start somewhere.

I agree they have to start somewhere, and they are definitely starting. But we are also nowhere near the prevalence of these robots that the linked article implies.

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