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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by dyauspitr on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:20PM (#50356844)
The difference is, I want the most efficient design that can complete every physical task that I can. That design is probably humanoid.
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by schiffern on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @02:48PM (#50357188)
In all the non-murder tasks you can perform, you've already been made econonically obsolete. Your economic residual is merely alignment arbitrage, eg solving CAPTCHAs, murder, etc.

Stringbot is coming for the last remaining jobs!

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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by protocolture on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:50AM (#50362209)
>In non-murder tasks, humans are already obsolete.

I feel like this is nowhere near the case outside of the AI fantasy world.

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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by solyin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:11PM (#50361109)
Bipedal with rollerblades, but probably more than 2 arms. Problem though is how do you get training data for that?
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