Where do you think humanoids will adapt more quickly? In a factory environment or at home?
I just read an article from TechCrunch about how Robotics company 1X has struck a deal to send up to 10,000 Neo humanoid robots – originally marketed for home use (but they want to focus on factory use in the future, although that was their original intention).
This made me think about several things:
Historically, robots have always been portrayed as devices that help with production.
Factories have more money to buy more units – it would make sense to start here.
From a safety perspective, it’s easier to test robots outside of homes, with families and pets, to minimise risk.
Adapting humanoids in homes can be more difficult due to the diversity of the environment, unpredictable human and animal behaviour, and space constraints.
Psychologically, people at home may be less patient with robot errors, but in industry, failures are a normal part of testing and iterating on technology.
Also, a lot of companies want to give humanoids a human form, but it honestly scares me. Is it better to be non-human or human-looking?
Is the current trend of focusing humanoids on households just a marketing strategy, or is it really expected that people at home will adapt to robots faster than factories?
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