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Building Cheap Humanoid Robots for Factory Tasks
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The infrastructure for computer vision and manipulation tasks in autonomous driving can be used for building humanoid robots for factory tasks. The goal is to create a system that is cheap, but not crappy.

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The main reason for creating a humanoid robot is to automate tasks in factories designed for humans.
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Robotics
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The main reason for creating a humanoid robot is to automate tasks in factories designed for humans. However, in the future, there may be social robots in homes that can help with household tasks and provide companionship.

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Building Cheap Humanoid Robots for Factory Tasks
Episode
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The strategy behind super systems design at companies such as Tesla involves building cheap but not poorly constructed systems.
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Technology
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The strategy behind super systems design at companies such as Tesla involves building cheap but not poorly constructed systems. By asking the first principle question of why things cost so much, companies such as Tesla are able to innovate and achieve better results.

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Building Cheap Humanoid Robots for Factory Tasks
Episode
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast
The same pipeline used for autonomous driving can be applied to legged robots because of its incredible infrastructure for computer vision and manipulation tasks, which poses a fascinating scientific and engineering problem that could teach us more about human body and locomotion.
1:46:29 - 1:49:03 (02:34)
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Robotics
Summary

The same pipeline used for autonomous driving can be applied to legged robots because of its incredible infrastructure for computer vision and manipulation tasks, which poses a fascinating scientific and engineering problem that could teach us more about human body and locomotion.

Chapter
Building Cheap Humanoid Robots for Factory Tasks
Episode
#329 – Kate Darling: Social Robots, Ethics, Privacy and the Future of MIT
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast