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Re:Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't by idiotsecant on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @08:56AM (#39103299)
Its very common for plant operators to do 'rounds' and inspect gauges that are not digital because they are not usually terribly important, because the gauge provides a backup to the electronic reading, etc.

Put this on a 'spot' robot from Boston dynamics and you have an operator that won't be hurt when there is a steam leak, or whatever.

There are definitely use cases.

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Re:Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't by Workaccount2 on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:04AM (#39104217)
It would be even more trivial to just have cameras and a human who can quickly scroll through the different cams to check the gauges.

The question is how much you trust this vision system, not whether or not you still need a guy to do rounds.

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Re:Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't by idiotsecant on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @05:06PM (#39110627)
No, fixed cameras have a linear maintenance cost and are subject to all the regular problems fixed infrastructure has. A robot has the same cost whether it spends all day walking in circles or doing rounds.
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Re:Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't by Workaccount2 on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @09:37AM (#39117795)
You would probably have to pay for 80 years of "camera maintenance" before you met the cost of 1 robot.
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Re:Show HN: Simply Reading Analog Gauges – GPT4, CogVLM Can't by icecoffee on Thursday January 25, 2024 @05:02AM (#39127922)
The cv reading here is really a POC base on off-the-self and will require some work. Fix-camera vs Spot, I can definitely see the pros and cons. So at what price point do you think industry will adopt Spot for doing rounds?
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