Christian Hubicki

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe · The Skeptics Guide #949 - Sep 16 2023 podcast

I know you talk about this.

I find it funny that I came to a similar conclusion.

But there is so little control for a robot in your home.

So the companies that want to do home robotics, like a robot that will make cook for you or maybe –

a robot that might help grandpa off the couch.

They know these are not products that are going to be ready soon.

But what they are doing is they're starting research institutes to answer those basic scientific questions of how do you fold the laundry?

What are the algorithms to fold the laundry?

dealing with these categories of objects that robots have to deal with that they don't have to do as much in factories you know soft cloth folding that's an active field of research um how would you if you're how would you if you're cooking a vegetable how would you know how to slice the carrot whether the carrot's a different size and there are institutes that try to uh try to come up with with control policies that to handle that um but we all know it's still at the

Basic to applied research stage.

So that's a long way of saying, Steve, that I think we have to wait a bit for robots to be in our homes.

I would not expect it.

In fact, if I were an audience member, I would apply your skepticism to whenever you see a product.

It seems like a product that's going to be in your home that's a robot product.

Anytime soon, if you see an advertisement or you see a cool YouTube video and say, oh, the robots are coming, you got to ask yourself, how often does it work?

And just to belabor this a little bit longer, there's a great example.

There's a company that I have ties to.

It's called Agility Robotics.

They make humanoid robots and they want humanoid robots to go in factories.

So if you're asking where they're going to show up next.

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