🦾 NASA Quietly Training Robot Dog to Navigate Landscape of the Moon | @futurism
「 The project called Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments (LASSIE) is designed to teach the robot to adapt to its varying environment in real-time, with the goal of eventually having it traverse the surface of the Moon and perhaps even other worlds in our solar system 」
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reporter: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, a robot dog project...
NASA: Legged Autonomous Surface Science in Analog Environments
reporter: That's quite a mouthful.
NASA: I know. We're working on it.
reporter: anyway, about that Legged Autonomous ....
NASA: Just call it L.A.S.S.I.E
And besides, if you want to automate making burgers and fries, you would redesign the entire kitchen around a simpler system of automation, not create a gigantic ceiling-mounted robot arm that manipulates implements meant for human use.
Every modern Apple blockbuster has been relatively small and light, with close to zero moving parts:
iPhone
iPad
AirPods
Apple Watch
Relatively speaking, a home robot is massive, much more complex and fragile. Likely MUCH more expensive than the highest priced iPhone or even Vision Pro.
Such a beast would require a major commitment from the buyer, which means far fewer units sold.
@flargh@davemark In the sense that I'm hoping they don't just change the label of the boondoggle, ie: s/car/robot /g.
Every house robot is a shitty house robot, barely able to do the task it's designed to do (roomba vacuums don't vacuum as well as a human doing the vacuuming) — because designing these things and having them not be terrible is literally as difficult as creating a self-driving car, albeit with slightly lower stakes.
@news@datasciencejobs My bad I have been following the #datascience hash tag so that is why I am seeing all these posts in my home feed without following the account. I forgot about it. Sorry for the inconvenience.