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The difference is they can be put into environments that do not allow for purpose robots. I don't think it is a bad idea that spaces are still made for humans for when something goes wrong. A frozen pizza factory is trying to solve and sell something different.
It really depends on what resources you have qwen-code-next will run them but you will need at least 64gb of memory to run it at a reasonable quant and context.
Most of these agents support OpenAI/anthropic compatible endpoints.
Considering what type of sensors that would need to be are already on these robots, would it not be possible to teleoperate within VR? So the motion and control can be more fulid but there is a lag before it is applied to real robot. Like how mosh[0] works.
[0] https://mosh.org