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Re:Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy ... by stefan8r on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:49PM (#32310490)
To add to what Ilia said - re: - "The machine works good enough that it can perform the task until it can't anymore and then someone remotes-in to fix it?"

The machine will work good enough for basic autonomy, but then the real application-specific work begins. Whether that work is you modifying the behaviors you're having us do, you routing those systems to humans to help out, or you complaining that our stuff sucks (and us trying to rapidly improve it).

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Re:Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy ... by hic on Monday August 01, 2022 @08:13PM (#32313775)
Do you see the platform then providing for now "reptile" autonomy (mobility, navigation, localisation) to get started fast, so customers can focus on their "neo-cortex" applicative needs?

(please let me emphasize this "reptile" autonomy is today perhaps the hardest/time-consuming part killing many startups, as you nicely explain in the OP---Moravec's paradox)

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Re:Launch HN: Polymath Robotics (YC S22) – General autonomy ... by iliabara on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:47PM (#32314330)
That's a great way to think about it, you are describing it exactly correctly.
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