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by nkrisc 46 days ago
But what do they do?

I’ve only ever seen them performing choreographed routines or running races.

I’ve yet to see one doing something useful, so if you know of an example, I’d love to see it.

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They need better software and they also need better hands. That will take time. But the commenter suggested manufacturing them will be a challenge and at this point it doesn’t seem like manufacturing will be the issue. As far as applications it seems to me like deliveries could be useful but I haven’t studied the space really, I’m just familiar with robotics. Maybe they will never be useful, but we will find out in 5 years when software has advanced.