Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/

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archive.is is malicious -- as in, uses your browser to launch DDoS attacks, and other things.

I think the attack was itself a response to a doxxing attempt. Also, archive.is being a free service doesn't quite fit with claiming they are malicious. The overall picture seems still positive.

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ReptileMan3• 3 months ago

Just run in the console window=null and you are good. It is valuable service until the websites get their shit together and finally fix their payments model.

martythemaniak• 3 months ago

Rodney Brooks has a great essay on why he's skeptical that the current humanoid hype will deliver and the central claim is that human dexterity is extremely advanced any today's humanoids lack even the sensors and data needed to start building the models needed to match human performance.

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...

I saw him post this article on his Bluesky saying that they're the first ones he's seen that are close to cracking this issue (he's an investor/adviser).

dyauspitr3• 3 months ago

Yeah I’m going to completely disregard this because I feel like we are less than a year away from completely human feeling humanoids. This is based on nothing but obsessively watching and following humanoid progress on the internet.

jfengel2• 3 months ago

I obsessively avoid any kind of "technology is going thataway" content. So I haven't seen anything that looks like humanoid progress in quite some time. About the only thing that has snuck around my barrier is Musk apparently claiming he'll have it by the end of the year, which is pretty conclusive evidence that they won't have it by the end of the year.

So if you're seeing anything that actually seems to merit attention, I'd love a few pointers. I could use some good news.

ManuelKiessling2• 3 months ago

What was eye-opening, or rather, sobering for me was when I read an interview with an engineer who explained how incredible difficult it is for a robot to orient itself when it is lying on the floor and wants to stand up.

Yes, it can do the required motions just fine, that’s not the point. But think about yourself when you are lying on the floor: it’s really easy to determine if this is safe, if you are lying underneath something and so on. You just feel that.

A robot cannot do that; all they can do is look around as good as possible and visually determine their situation.

nancyminusone• 3 months ago

Well, as someone who has tried to build at least a couple small robot arms, I think we are probably closer to 20-50 years away. Both the power and dexterity are not there.

Right now, only a human can both push over a boulder and pick up a tiny speck from the floor using the same actuator.

rcxdude2• 3 months ago

Beware generalising from a carefully curated and presented set of demos to real life.

megaman821• 3 months ago

I wonder how accurate joint positions and muscle activations can be from just a POV camera. Maybe it’s not crazy to think someone could get tens of millions of hours of well-labeled training data.

nomel• 3 months ago

needed to match human performance.

This is not a remotely a real world requirement for them to be useful, and for them to sell like crazy.

usrnm• 3 months ago

Isn't it? The whole promise if humanoid robots is replacing humans in a human-centered environment. Instead of specialized hardware or modifying the existing process, just drop a robot in place of a human, bam, done. Otherwise, what's the point?

jfengel2• 3 months ago

Back in the 90s, I developed a rule of thumb: if I saw it in Wired, it's because it was either already over, or it wasn't going to happen at all.

I was so disappointed when I saw BetterPlace (the car with replaceable batteries) on the cover of Wired. It seemed like such a good idea. Too bad the rule of thumb meant it wouldn't work.

Rules of thumb were made to be broken. Maybe this time it will be different.

eichin• 3 months ago

Yeah, betterplace made it from 2008 (wired) to 2013 (bankruptcy.) Nio is trying again and it looks like they hit wired in 2018, again in 2023, and are still active today...

chrisweekly• 3 months ago

Anyone else here have happy memories of playing with Armatron? Circa 1984?

manyturtles• 3 months ago

Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718493

iancmceachern• 3 months ago

Yes! The most amazing part about those things was they achieved all those axis' of motion with one or two motors.

euroderf3• 3 months ago

And the associated grinding noises were kinda scary but damn if the thing didn't hold up.

pugworthy• 3 months ago

Oh hell yea!

Just a few weeks ago at work we got a Universal Robots UR5 from another project in-house along with a Hand-E gripper.

I've never had so much fun programming and playing with a device ever. And it completely took me back to getting an Armatron 40 years ago and having so much fun - but also wishing I could somehow control it with software.

voxadam• 3 months ago

I still have mine sitting on a shelf in my office.

HardCodedBias• 3 months ago

This one is different? What about unitree? What about their demo at the Spring Festival Gala?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykiuz1ZdGBc

That sure felt "different".

No doubt hands are important, but I think you've missed a lot here Wired.

darenr• 3 months ago

those were impressive but were also RC. I think an important part of robotics is not just the mechanics of humanoid motion, but the independent control of those mechanics.

unsnap_biceps• 3 months ago

Can you expand on what was RC? Was the compute off device?

mediaman• 3 months ago

Many of the Chinese companies are doing very impressive open-loop sim2real. They make great demonstrations. They are not great at dealing with the real world and unpredictable environments.

(That's not true of all Chinese companies - some are doing really impressive work with closed loop systems in unpredictable environments. But many of the highly viewed ones with coordinated dance performances or martial arts are intended more as theater to government financial sponsors than useful function. The technically impressive performances do not look as visually impressive.)

SpaceNoodled2• 3 months ago

a ChatGPT moment for the physical world.

That's not a good thing, WIRED.

gwbas1c• 3 months ago

I want Rosie (fictional robot from the TV show "The Jetsons")

Basically, I want a robotic butler / maid that will do most of the cleanup around the house.

davely• 3 months ago

Haha! Instead, you’ll get a robot that will make you art, music, and tell you stories and you get to toil away cleaning the house.

conception2• 3 months ago

“Sure I’ll clean up the house, Mr. J. While I’m doing, so have you seen the new shoes from crocs? They’re sponsored by the Jenners and have great new designs with all of your favorite movie characters on them! Would you like me to order you a pair?”

mitthrowaway2• 3 months ago

Unfortunately, the only robots available will be connected to the cloud, paid by subscription, and will gather a continuous feed of audio-video data from you and your home. And sometimes it will be teleoperated, and you might not know when.

I'd rather do my own cleanup, personally.

commandlinefan• 3 months ago

I'm having some house painting done and the painter asked me what line of work I was in. When I said computer programming he said, "ooh, bet you're worried about AI! At least painters are safe!"

euroderf3• 3 months ago

He "might" be but not any of his kids going into the business. The home maintenance bots will invade slowly, then all at once.

z3c0• 3 months ago

Given how many people attempted to date their computer after ChatGPT launched, I don't even want to imagine what this technology has in store.

dataviz10002• 3 months ago

I've spent ~$500 this month trying to get an LLM model to solve a Rubik's Cube. They can't. I'll post my Rubik's Cube MCP server next week if anyone wants to prove me wrong.

1. a human child learning 6 algorithms and a weekend can solve a Rubik's Cube

2. Reenforcement learning can solve a Rubik's Cube

3. The best LLM model using recursive tuning or not can't solve a Rubik's Cube.

Claude 4.6 got 60% of the way but couldn't figure out the last steps after running for 20+ minutes and hundreds of thousands of tokens.

ReptileMan3• 3 months ago

I am not sure how to say it exactly, but right now we are in situation in which we are complaining that a magical technology is not magical enough.

tuatoru• 3 months ago

The robotics Turing test: change the nappies of the designer's and company owners' baby daughters or grand-daughters.

xg15• 3 months ago

I'd already be fine with some decent laundry folding in general.

ceejayoz• 3 months ago

I think the idea is that before they sell it to the public they should trust it with their own loved ones.

Ekaros• 3 months ago

Other fun things. Living in apartment with only the robot doing any tasks or picking up any inputs like arriving packages.

xp84• 3 months ago

“Eka, open claw!!!!”

“I’m sorry, OpenClaw is not approved for an account on your subscription tier.”

suffocates from being choked by robotic claw

SpyCoder772• 3 months ago

This comment is not going unappreciated

handfuloflight• 3 months ago

Masterpiece.

sebastiennight3• 3 months ago

Extra billing activated until further notice

notatoad• 3 months ago

It seems silly to be talking about a “ChatGPT moment” for a piece of industrial hardware that no regular person will ever have any cause to consider buying.

The ChatGPT moment was when they launched a product that was generally useful to the average person. Something that isn’t a consumer product at all is very unlikely to achieve success in the consumer market.

yakbarber• 3 months ago

In less than 10 years there’s going to be millions of bipedal robots everywhere, doing all sorts of chores for us. They’re going to need hands.

nkrisc• 3 months ago

That’s an incredibly optimistic timeline.

walrus01• 3 months ago

I remember a certain public personality who is very big on bipedal humanoid robots these days also promising us that we'd have truly autonomous self driving cars from his company by 2022, or 2023. It's now 2026.

LastTrain• 3 months ago

Why bipedal?

0xbadcafebee4• 3 months ago

The bipedal robot thing is interesting, but there's only two places their cost makes sense: industry and war. After war makes them cheap to mass-produce (because an army of robots needs to be sustainable), then they'll be affordable. But they'll still be highly regulated, mostly as a political reaction to "losing jobs". It will probably take 30+ years for us to get to that point, because wars big enough to invest that much expense and manpower aren't common.

tamimio• 3 months ago

As someone in the robotics, I can tell you that’s never gonna happen, even if you see a fully functional demo of a robot (not just the typical money grab 3D renders), assume the real life performance are 10x worse.. there’s so much monkey business in robotics, plenty of over promising, so much empty hypes, that been going on for years, the only successful breeds are cobotics (like roomba and industrial manipulators) or recently drones, although still very limited due to endurance.

analog31• 3 months ago

I'd consider hands to be more important than bipedal mobility.

I work in R&D, supporting a high-tech factory. The factory has already been laid out so that the entire place is accessible for materials being moved around on carts. The worker could be replaced by a cart with hands. If we could solve the hands problem right now, we'd be buying robots by the dozens.

Also, lots of things could be done right now by stationary robots. But at the present level of technology, what we really lack are programmers. Naturally what I'm saying could be overturned tomorrow by AI, so I'm talking in terms of how things work today. I'm actually one of the few people at the site with experience at industrial automation, but it's not part of my job at present.

In a sense, the hands we lack are hands on keyboards.

hanspeter3• 3 months ago

While I agree we'll see millions of bipedal robots, it won't be because they're doing our chores. People will buy them for the same reason I'd want one today: They're fun toys.

It's been 10 years since Boston Dynamics released this impressive video of Atlas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMGQgDkY

Even though today's robots are vastly more sophisticated, the progress of the last decade shows we shouldn't expect a sudden revolution in their abilities over the next ten years. As is often the case, solving those final few challenges that really make a difference always takes the longest.

kibwen2• 3 months ago

In less than 10 years there’s going to be millions of bipedal robots everywhere

No, there won't be, and I have no clue why you think this is true. It's been more than 15 years since the first demos of self-driving cars, a much easier problem than useful bipedal robots coexisting in spaces made for humans, and self-driving cars are still hardly anywhere, despite the breathless predictions 15 years ago that all cars and trucks everywhere would be self-driving as of what is now 5 years ago.

boxed• 3 months ago

This might age badly heh. Kinda like "we only need 2 MAYBE 3 computers for Sweden" (real thing people said back in the day).

roenxi• 3 months ago

Launched a product that, as I recall, was free. No real foreshadowing of what was about to come. Opened up an entirely new product category and started a process of reshaping at least the economy and probably society over the course of less than 5 years so far.

Yeah. I don't see how this is going to be a ChatGPT moment. Robot arms aren't a crazy new product. It might be big news regardless.

semiquaver• 3 months ago

https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Animats2• 3 months ago

We'll know this works when it starts replacing Amazon pickers in quantity. Amazon has been trying to automate that for years, with many demos and contests. So far, nothing can quickly and reliably take random products out of one bin and put them in another. Amazon's robotic systems move larger containers and shelves of bins around, but do not yet pick individual items.

dmix4• 3 months ago

There's a lot more money being thrown at this than in previous years. Seems to be growing beyond corporate R&D labs and university research towards startups trying to productize it.

I've seen multiple articles about robotic claws. This one made the rounds previously https://www.firgelli.com/pages/humanoid-robot-actuators

sigmoid102• 3 months ago

A humanoid robot takes roughly 5,000 steps per hour. Each step sends a shock of 2–3× body weight through the leg actuators—forces that would be fine occasionally, but become destructive when repeated thousands of times without pause.

As someone who comes from the world of running and knee problems, I feel this misses the issue. Normal walking should not produce these kinds of shocks unless your gait is really jumpy or otherwise screwed up. You only start to see these forces when running and that's where technique becomes important even for humans if you want to prevent damage to your joints over long distances. But at least for walking I suppose that a fully articulated humanoid with all the degrees of freedom of human gait should be mostly a control problem, not a mechanical engineering one.

p-e-w2• 3 months ago

We'll know this works when it starts replacing Amazon pickers in quantity.

That doesn’t follow. There are plenty of tasks that can be fully and reliably automated but aren’t, for the simple reason that human labor is dirt cheap compared to advanced robotics.

somewhatgoated3• 3 months ago

What is the point of humanoid “general” robots then? We already have pretty reliable ways to make and train humans. Humans are cheaper and better than robots. I could imagine robots for some specialised tasks where you don’t want to use a human for eg security reasons, but you don’t need general purpose robots for that

chihuahua3• 3 months ago

A friend who works at Amazon made the same point: "We don't really need robots in the FCs urgently [other than the Kivas], because it turns out you can just pay people $17/hour"

momojo2• 3 months ago

I disagreed, then re-read your post, then re-read the OP, and now I've come full circle to apologize; I think you make a fair point.

I work at a biotech. We spent who knows how much time and money trying to develop a 'lab technician bot' to automate one of our critical assays. Turns out, a 6-figure machine still isn't as economical as my coworker Y, one of the veteran lab-technicians. Sure she takes the occasional sick day but even at our volume (and we do industrial-level, multiple clients batched into a single assay pass) it won't be economical to replace her for a very long time (if we even reach that scale).

krisoft• 3 months ago

But that does follow. The economics working is not some outside factor. If the robot “could do the task” but would cost more than paying a human to do the same task then the robot “does not work”. It is frequently because the robot would be too slow, or not reliable enough, or could only handle certain types of items. But ultimately all of these boil down to cost.

We have seen lab demoes of robotic manipulation for decades. The reason why they stay in the lab (when they do) and don’t become ubiquitous is because they are not good enough. In other words they don’t work. The economics and “does it work” is not two separate concerns but one and the same.

throwaway20372• 3 months ago

You raise a great point. And the Amazon picking staff are onshore in wealthy countries. I guess the minimum wage paid by Amazon is around 15 USD per hour.

I wonder: Is the task of automating this work primaryly difficult in vision or dexterity (motion)? Or maybe they are equally difficult for different reasons.

whiplash451• 3 months ago

Probably both vision and dexterity, and the first mistake we make as roboticists/engineers might be to distinguish the two like they're separate problems to solve or that a solution exists where the two live a separate life.

https://rodneybrooks.com/why-todays-humanoids-wont-learn-dex...

fluoridation3• 3 months ago

If we're talking about picking objects at random from one bin and putting it in another, I don't need my eyes to do that. Proprioception (shape and location) and touch (texture) are enough to do that.

inglor_cz2• 3 months ago

As others say, not necessarily. The breakeven point for jobs like Amazon may be quite low (or high? I mean simply "not yet there").

I'd say that we'll know it works when robots with those hands start turning out on the Russo-Ukrainian frontline en masse, because it is there where the lack of manpower has the most pressing and brutal consequences, and cannot be mitigated by usual peacetime incentives (e.g. better benefits).

That frontline has already sucked in all the automatization innovations of the last decade, as long as they proved themselves in combat.

sebastiennight3• 3 months ago

we'll know it works when robots with those hands start turning out on the Russo-Ukrainian frontline en masse

What would a clawed robot be able to accomplish that can't be done by a flying drone or unmanned wheeled vehicle?

julienfr112• 3 months ago

Maybe this workforce is useful not because of it's direct output, but for it's mere existence : look politian, I'm creating jobs !

jgalt212• 3 months ago

Amazon is also my personal AGI test. When one can link up frontier model to Mechanical Turk and regularly make money, game over.

yencabulator• 3 months ago

At that point, Mechanical Turk pricing would drop to match LLM token cost.

rossdavidh• 3 months ago

Do they mean, the moment when everyone realizes it's not as useful as they at first thought?

arjie• 3 months ago

All my life I've loved robotics, so I was very eager to get things in the house, but my primary problem with humanoid robots is that they're very different from my Roomba-successor Dreame vacuum in a crucial way: they can fall. The Dreame can occupy the same space as my toddler, but the more industrial grade robotics machines cannot. The Unitree Sun Wukong is unbelievably impressive and I could completely imagine a world where it replaces humans in existing dangerous spaces without requiring the spaces themselves retooled. But in my house, perhaps the future will be like what these guys say and I'll have an Eka Claw on my kitchen counter and another by my washing machine, and so on.

In the classic example of old-guy-gets-surprised-by-new-tech, I bet people will find a way around the problem: but the thing has to be powerful to be fast, and if it's powerful it can hurt.

Who can tell. It was just prior to the pandemic when I was showing my wife talktotransformer.com and thinking about how much needs to be solved before it's useful. More fool am I HAHA!

dmix4• 3 months ago

in a crucial way: they can fall.

The question is do they fall and can't get back up

The main issue is how heavy duty they are, because they operate on lithium batteries you can't make them too heavy otherwise it burns battery. So these humanoid robots durability will be closely aligned with innovation in lithium battery tech, or having larger and expensive robots with lots of battery.

nealabq• 3 months ago

I think he meant it can fall onto his toddler, causing injury.

gattr• 3 months ago

Not that big of a problem, right? Just put a lot of power sockets throughout the workspace. Robot gets to its work station, can be tethered and recharge when it's operating there. Similarly in a household.

nradov3• 3 months ago

Meanwhile the Roomba-successor robots that I've tried still get tangled up on our laptop charger cables and wedged under the coffee table.

Gigachad4• 3 months ago

I got given a Huawei one for free which I found useful while I had a housemate with a cat since the place needed a vacuum almost twice a day. But after he moved out I just went back to vacuuming manually since it’s easier than having to scan the floor for every cable or throw rug it might get jammed on.

I don’t want to say home robotics will never happen since it seems likely eventually it will. But I think the deployment will be much much slower than entirely software based products like ChatGPT.

dyauspitr3• 3 months ago

You won’t have an eka claw. You will have a humanoid. It’s a no brainer. You will get used to the “danger” just like we got used to the danger involved in driving a car or ceiling fans or propane home heating. Every year you’ll have a handful of injuries/deaths but eventually because of how useful they are no one will care and rightfully so.

RajT88• 3 months ago

Well, except we have 5 decades of cautionary tales in film that show plausible ways this goes sideways when everything is connected to the internet.

Markoff• 3 months ago

what's the danger involved with ceiling fans (unless you are Korean)?

now that I think about it I can only remember videos of people doing really stupid things with them, then being surprised by really bad results, but never heard about any of them endangering anyone during normal operation

ezconnect• 3 months ago

I don't see a future with humanoid robots inside the house. We probably will have specialized robots for certain task like the roombas.

p1esk• 3 months ago

I fully expect to buy one within the next three years. Probably Optimus 4, depending on the price.

stein1946• 3 months ago

All I want is a machine that I can drop ingredients in it and it can give me a delicious meal

And another that I can just drop all my clothes in, and have them washed and ironed for me.

Doesn't have to be a humanoid.

tikotus• 3 months ago

If you like smoothies, I think I've got something for you!

oblio5• 3 months ago

All I want is a machine that I can drop ingredients in it and it can give me a delicious meal

https://www.thermomix.com/

In 1971, the original Thermomix VM 2000 was launched on the market – first in France, later in Spain and Italy.

egeozcan• 3 months ago

Thermomix isn't what you describe, but it spared me so much time...

ehnto• 3 months ago

I think the focus has been on lowering mass so that they can move quickly with low kinetic energy.

NalNezumi2• 3 months ago

I have high respect of Tuomas and his work around SAC for RL in robotics.

But this is slightly unconvincing, most because of the author

They spend thousands of computer hours practicing movements inside simulated worlds and inventing their own solutions.

This is exactly what almost every other picking startups have been doing for the last couple of years.

I can think of at least a dozens, some even making their custom gripper hardware. It still relies on sim2real transfer and then there's a bottleneck of things such as representing deformable objects. And that's still just scratching the surface of it.

I can definitely see that they have the right team. But the claim made by this author is far removed from the actual demo he describes. I've seen same demo for years, last one was in CoRL by Google (Gemini) and even then you could see clever robotics guy (some Boston dynamics engineers) that came by and gave it a clever task it failed on.

Joel_Mckay• 3 months ago

Universal Robots ( https://www.universal-robots.com/ ) force sensing collaborative platforms were very advanced years ago, but like most bot firms small market demand made retail consumer pricing unsustainable.

I can think of at least a dozens, some even making their custom gripper hardware.

The simplest solution sometimes is more robust in practice:

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/balloon-filled-ground-coffee...

Too many edge-case failure modes in an uncontrolled setting. Building platforms that could seriously harm people by just falling over is an inherent design risk. =3

theteapot2• 3 months ago

But the claim made by this author is far removed from the actual demo he describes. I've seen same demo for years

The article describes multiple demos. Are you referring to the chicken nuggets one? That sounded pretty impressive to me. Is there publicly available videos of this?

NalNezumi2• 3 months ago

I'm describing all of them.

As for chicken nugget here's for example one (company) showing same capacity 4 years ago

https://youtu.be/6SbpfN5ed38?si=srtdZCdKOdPZ_wRn

They today have similar system that can quickly sort dumplings (more sensitive than chicken nuggets) ob conveyor belt.

No sim2real even needed. That haptics sensor is dirtcheap; camera based haptics sensor are today even available as open-source hardware that you can assemble for cheap.

If we don't limit to company demos we can dig up demos from I think almost a decade ago, and at least ~5 years ago for company demos.

pixl97• 3 months ago

One thing the LLM market has done is any AI work that can run on a GPU has a vastly larger amount of computing power.

bethekidyouwant• 3 months ago

Call me when it can tie a shoelace.

serf• 3 months ago

just because it's an article about techie stuff doesn't mean all the photojournalism has to be color-graded like a Matrix movie.

.. but it's kind of funny to read the fluff PR about saving humanity while juxtaposing it against photos that look like they may as well be screencaps from Prometheus or Black Mirror.

see : two startled victims under a blue arctic sun - https://media.wired.com/photos/69f11cbf1b1015e12f65d23e/mast...

NDlurker• 3 months ago

Mount 2 of these on a Segway and I can think of several tasks that could be automated where I work.

SpyCoder772• 3 months ago

If Figure acquires Eka they are so winning the humanoid race.

gurjeet• 3 months ago

A couple of minutes of video (presumably by the author):

https://www.wired.com/video/watch/this-company-is-building-s...

ofjcihen• 3 months ago

I don’t know when this ridiculous melodramatic style of writing started to pervade all of tech but it needs to go away. It’s resurrecting the pain of around 2016 when everyone presented like they were giving their own TED Talk.

Morromist• 3 months ago

Problem is talking in a simple, rational way doesn't get people to frantically cram huge wads of money down your pants. Was the same back in the day men in striped suits roamed the land selling curative tonics that were just alcohol and some smelly herbs.

I don't understand these frantic money people, but I do understand if you can figure out how to not be the greater fool you can make a lot of money. Seems kinda dumb this is how innovation is funded.

vjvjvjvjghv2• 3 months ago

I am waiting for a robot that can dust my shelves even when there are things on them. That would improve my life a lot.

euroderf3• 3 months ago

IMHO the big winner is gonna be the toilet/tub/shower-bot.

svantana• 3 months ago

A product I think could work is a robo vacuum / drone combo. The drone will first fly around and blow dust from shelves etc, and most of it will end up on the floor. After that, the vacuum bot does its thing.

vjvjvjvjghv2• 3 months ago

I usually take a leaf blower. Works better than the drone to blow the dust off.

theteapot2• 3 months ago

Companies pay people to spend hours doing routine tasks with their hands while wearing cameras and motion-capture gloves.

Dystopian. Which companies out of interest?

HNisCIS• 3 months ago

I'm not sure I grasp the hype here. It's a few dynamixels screwed together. They're not even particularly good servos.

everyone• 3 months ago

"a ChatGPT moment" doesnt seem very momentous. ChatGPT was surprisingly good compared to previous smaller models. But since then the LLM scene has just been insane amounts of hype and bullshit and financial skulduggery. Their actual utility is pretty niche imo.

threefour• 3 months ago

“Trillions of dollars flow through the human hand,” Agrawal says. “To me, this is the biggest problem in the world to be solved.”

They need to work on their messaging. "Human hands are a problem" is going to make enemies. Perhaps "relieve humans of menial chores" and "take over dangerous jobs" and "enable precision not possible with the human hand" etc.

fluoridation3• 3 months ago

Presumably the people they're talking to agree that that's the problem.

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

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