Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions for apps?

Re:Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions ... by Kye on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:03PM (#29219584)

This is definitely not the first consumer humanoid robot even if you constrain it to robots that can actually walk on two legs. It's important to mention because if you think it is, you might have missed all the things you might learn studying successes and failures.

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Re:Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions ... by dario-fino on Sunday November 14, 2021 @02:47PM (#29219993)

There have been some consumer humanoid toys in the past, but I wouldn't call them robots. The social consumer robots market has historically been dominated by quadrupeds, which don't have the same level of versatility as a humanoid robot, so we wanted to fill that gap.

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Re:Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions ... by pedalpete on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:00PM (#29221139)

https://www.softbankrobotics.com/emea/en/pepper

Don't pretend to be something you are not. You are far from the first humanoid robot. You sound foolish, or insincere claiming to be the first.

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Re:Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions ... by dario-fino on Sunday November 14, 2021 @05:08PM (#29221192)

We claimed to be the first consumer humanoid robot manufacturer :) Pepper isn't a consumer robot, in fact it's targeted towards businesses with a $14000 price point.

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Re:Ask HN: Creating a consumer humanoid robot – suggestions ... by pedalpete on Sunday November 14, 2021 @10:05PM (#29223183)

https://digital.hbs.edu/platform-rctom/submission/softbank-r...

I'm not suggesting that Pepper is the first, there was probably a consumer robot before Pepper too, and I'm guessing they've now pivoted.

I think if you can find another label than just "the first" that might help your business, as I think lots of people will question that statement, and it just isn't worth the argument. Being first isn't that big a deal.

Aren't sex robots also consumer? I'd think so. I'm not going to post NSFW links here, but the links aren't at all what I expected.

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