Steam Deck spotted, two minutes, seven seconds in. Seems to be getting a fair amount of use for puppeteering robots at Disney.
tormeh 1 day ago|||
It's a reasonably cheap and unlocked handheld with fecent battery life. Personally I'd want more pixels, but if it works it works. It seems to be the default choice for remote control these days.
ehnto 1 day ago|||
It's a great format for POV remote control in a more relaxed setting (eg, not flying a drone at 200kmph).
Zigurd 1 day ago||
You can make a robot that's small, soft, and not powerful enough to hurt anyone. Or you can make a robot that's strong enough to carry a laundry basket or climb stairs holding a vacuum cleaner. But you can only operate that big strong robot when there are no humans around. Is that big strong robot an investable idea?
tim333 14 hours ago|
Waymos are kind of big robots that operate with people around.
Zigurd 41 minutes ago||
That is an interesting comparison. More than 600,000 people not in cars are killed on roads every year. If a few hundred thousand were killed by humanoid robots every year it might make a cultural difference.
What do you think the robot makers need to do to have people accept the kind of death count cars deliver?
throw7 1 day ago||
Universal Studios baby dragons did it better.
hobofan 23 hours ago|
If you totally alter the character model to fit the envelope of a Boston Dynamics Spot/similar "dog robot', sure.
gcanyon 1 day ago||
They can make a two-legged walking robot, but they can't avoid the visible seam in the back of his head?
The tech is amazing, but they need better sewing...
RandallBrown 1 day ago||
Isn't the robot in the article a prototype?
ehnto 1 day ago||
Yes and hilariously, every single picture of it has a disclaimer stating that the prototype design will vary.
Disney legal is an entity worth studying one day.
dotancohen 1 day ago||
Arguably men are two legged walking robots, and men have seams. Even nature couldn't avoid it.
gregjw 1 day ago||
Five Nights at Freddys has ruined the joy animatronics for me, they just seem creepy now.
hobofan 1 day ago|
Yeah, I foresee a bite of '27.
lwhi 1 day ago||
This leads me to wonder, when are we likely to have LLMs in robot form in every day life?
themanmaran 1 day ago||
You could build one today! Lots of hard problems around a proper humanoid form, but if you're cool with wheels it would be pretty easy to hook up a little robot to GPT.
fennecfoxy 1 day ago|||
Look up VLA models; that's essentially plugging the guts of a language model into a transformer that handles joint motion/vision. They get trained on "episodes" i.e. videos from the PoV of a robot doing a task, after training you can ask the model things like: "pick up the red ball and put it into the green cup" etc. Really cool stuff.
phantom784 1 day ago||
https://www.1x.tech/neo, but from what I've heard a lot of times it still has to be remote controlled by a human.
bruce511 1 day ago||
Do they wanna build a snowman?
analog8374 23 hours ago||
Strong "Simple Jack" vibes.
ursAxZA 1 day ago||
For Paris, I’d honestly be more curious to see a Beast robot from *Beauty and the Beast.
Full-size might be… risky, but a small, friendly mini-Beast could be fun.