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by 317070 1796 days ago
No, and yes. You can build something. But even if you imagine tele-operating it 24/7, there is not going to be something relevant you can do with it around the house. It's not about the programming.

And that will not even be taking into account the time-to-maintenance of such a system.

On the other hand, Boston Dynamics' manifold, where they do the control of the dozens of hydraulical parts, is an absolute marvel of technology that shows what you can achieve with 45 (?) years of dedicated focus.

You might be able to teleoperate their robot for something useful in a human environment, and I guess that would be a gamechanger. But even there I want to wait-and-see if they can escape the fate of many that came before them.

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Think of literally any piece of equipment that needs a human operator to operate it. If we had the software side figured out, none of these machines would have human operators.