Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

Re:Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, cl... by bawana on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @09:04AM (#23831402)

Difference is : robots take up a lot more space. Having multiple simple robots leads to traffic in the real world and taking away space that humans could use. If robots could be like bosons that would be better

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Re:Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, cl... by ColanR on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @10:13AM (#23832168)

I'm not actually sure that's a difference. On the old systems where that philosophy was developed, disk space was at a premium. In fact, IIRC, the lack of space precipitated the need for a modular system of the sort described by the Unix philosophy.

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Re:Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, cl... by yencabulator on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @12:45AM (#23841423)

For a hundred robots, sure. For inner city apartments, sure. But I could put 10 of these things in the corner of this room right now and mostly not notice.

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