I just realised: If you buy a roomba and put an Ipad on top of that, it will already make a robot that is atleast as, if not more capable and versatile than any of these robots. I mean it has Siri, all the apps, and even cleans your floor.
Rachel Traintracks but siri understands different accents. Even with loud background music, or noises or even other people talking. But this robots dont. 😂😂
The feeling of having a robot roaming in your house and not knowing where he is kinda creeps me out. I'd rather have a cat or something instead of a huge ass robot that could jumpscare me at any time.
It's been 2 years since this video came out, so an update on the successful robot campaigns: - Buddy: Still not delivered, but the creators are showcasing it at startup conventions to get more funding. - Aido: Still not delivered, getting vague updates from the creators (SD&R already covered them in another video) - Alpha 2: Delivered, but people think it's shit. Comments are full of people asking for refunds, but no response from creators. - Pillo: Still not delivered, and backers are suspecting that it's a scam. - JIBO: Delivered, but people think it's just a more expensive, less useful Alexa. - Autoblow 2: Delivered on all promises.
@@capnbug don't look it up, not only most of those never really launched or launched under other names without being given to backers, but most of the companies still exist and seems to have got a lot of funding from big tech or governments, it's sad...and of course autoblow 2 is still being sold 6 years later alongside a new model with extra features
I'm currently developing a robot named SMOKY. It's similar to PILLO. You load a few packs of cigarettes inside, tell it how many cigarettes you smoke daily, and at regular intervals it will drop a cigarette out its arse. It can even light it for you. Oh, and it can also take your picture, shop online, and play with your kids too.
Aido's screen was just edited on, since the images on it weren't tracked right and it doesn't move with the camera shake. Hell, it doesn't have reflections!
Introducing a smart phone on wheels that you will get emotionally attached to. Its features include: giving your children developmental issues. Destroying your love life. making you suicidal when you break it.
These fake indeigogo ads are a real problem. Someone needs to tell the the advertising agency and shit. People are throwing there money at something that will never happen.
Ninja lemur It's sad when the only real thing that's happened in years is the legal suit between the European ad agency and No man's sky, and they got off Scott free
The UK's advertising authority forced EA to remove the term free to play from their awful Dungeon Keeper mobile game's promotion. These guys would be crucified if they couldn't prove their product could do the stuff they're advertising here.
WeeSmackyJim well part of that problem is fucking idiots who throw their money at this shit without logically thinking about it. I mean if everyone on the planet had mad street smarts these kinda fraud wouldnt be able to get past you in the first place
I would trust Mitchell and Webb's Cheesebot before I would allow ANY of these kickstarter robots in my home. At least Cheesebot wouldn't try to murder me first chance he gets...
Imagine how Pillo would function with an addiction. "I need my fix!" "You've already had your dosage." "But I need more!" "That's not what the doctor said." "Who cares what the doctor says?!?!" "Well you see, the doctor is the mos--" "Screw this!" *cracks Pillo open and takes drugs out* "I- Ce n'est- 传見- "
I don't see a problem with the auto blow 2. If women can have their automatic sex toys, then so too can men. People shouldn't be shamed for wanting different ways to get off.
true. But a Bullet costs like, what, $20? This thing costs well over $100. There just comes a point where I think you're investing too much into something.
Autoblow 2 looked like the most joke-ey thing on this list and it was apparently the only one that works and delivers on its promises. I watched this video 6 years ago, and coming back to this (reading update comments) apparently apart from autoblow 2 nothing else has been completed
So these "robots" are basically tablet and phone screens jammed onto a Roomba base, and a bunch of voice recognition bullshit lets you do all the things a tablet can do. Oh, and they also programmed a dumb little face into it to "humanise" it, which in reality is basically a glorified Tamagotchi that parrots phrases at you. Hell, the Dominos order tracker basically has one of those faces, just no speech. It's a simple trick. How did this crap make any money? Especially that little humanoid one that we saw giving people screwdrivers and umbrellas? That was such blatant phoney BS, yet that one earned one of the highest totals. What's wrong with people? Why are they so intent on throwing their money at these pitches that show not a single piece of genuine footage? If any of them ever deliver, get ready for a crapload of instant buyer's remorse as the glorified alarm clock they get turns out to be not all they hoped for. Fuck that pill dispenser too. All the family using the same cup to catch the dispensed pills? Hope no-one is allergic to anyone else's meds in the family. "Oh Pilo, you little rascal, Grandma's throat is closing up again!". Idiocy.
Good points! And you're right, they're all just an updated take on a robot pet. Whatever they ship isn't going to be helpful, it'll more likely just be an amusing (and very expensive) toy that recognizes every fifth word you say. Pillo won't have to worry about bad reviews, if it delivers it'll kill off its users in what can only be described as Darwinism.
True. And the real challenge is not so much packing all the hardware in some nice housing (tough, but doable), the real challenge is in the software. Speech recognition is one (yeah.. possible.. we are getting there slowly), connecting to the door, the lights (IoT is slowly rising), your families calendars (ever tried to synchronize google and outlook calendars?) is another, integrating all these in a 'human like' intelligent way is, although theoretically possible, lightyears beyond any flexible indiegogo target. So at best you will end up with nice hardware, an open sdk and the hope that the open source community will engage and make it work anytime.
The promotional video for Pillo was the most disturbing of the bunch by far. The entire family was popping pills like they were candy, it reminded me of how scary and pervasive the pharmaceutical industry has become in some parts of the world. Add in the "cute" robot in charge of serving potentially lethal cocktails of drugs and the whole thing makes some dystopian sci-fi scenarios look benign.
I see an use though, my grandma had dementia and she couldn't keep track of the pills she was taking, it would be a very good way to track pill usage or lock out unauthorized usage Esp considering that one of the pills she was taking was Xanax
6:48 They couldn't even use motion tracking properly, the eyes are floating on top of the screen and isn't following the movement of the camera. 10/10 editing
11:49 Immagine: The robot gets hacked, and they set it so that instead of dispenceing medicine to increase his blood pressure, it dispenced blood thinners, blood thinners to someone that already has a low blood pressure! THAT WOULD KILL YOU!
I could see Pillo as being VERY useful for a certain subset of people with psych illnesses and developmental disabilities: people with disorders that cause them to forget their meds even after setting alarms and such, and people with disorders that make medicine compliance more difficult (schizophrenics being the main example.) It's nothing specific about Pillo's functions itself - I'm already really critical of Internet of Things devices that have the potential to really screw up people's lives and security - but the fact that Pillo adds a human element to that pill alarm. I know I, personally, am so much more motivated and on point with stuff when there's social pressure involved, and I'd probably be a lot more on top of things if a robot told me to take my melatonin at such and such time if I want to wake up at noon and get X amount of hours of sleep and did it in a really cutesy way... but that could all be accomplished with an app and a special pill container, probably. Also, idk if anyone's brought up this issue w/ the autoblow on here yet, but masturbation methods too dissimilar from the... typical means (hands/fingers, genitals, mouths...) can "train" one's crotch to not respond to more normal stimulation and make people unable to orgasm during those more typical encounters. Not unique to the autoblow (or people w/ cocks, I feel like a lot of clits are leashed to their hitachis) but worth mentioning if the stimulation is that much harder or different. At least the project delivered!
Shortly after filming the promo for the Autoblow 2, Brian's fever dream of a robot ripped his dick off. He now lives in Tijuana, where he's currently training an all-cockroach mariachi band to play pop covers.
Instead of a robot buddy, can I just have an "video game multiplayer AI chat bot"? - Plug it into a console/PC via USB, and it acts as an AI controlled second controller for video games - Open source so anyone can program AI for different games - You can chat to it so it learns words and speech (like the Tay and You chat bot that /pol/ fucked) - It can use "speech" through a text to speech program - Depending on what phrases it learns (and from what situations [it makes a kill, it senses that you were killed/it heals or supports/etc.) its "personality" will change - You can set it to learn only from certain people (friends list/public/specific people) I mean, I would not expect it to be THAT good at games, but when is game AI ever any good? Does this seem like a viable kickstarter idea? If so, someone PLEASE steal this idea.
I decided to work on my own concept. It’s base holds the computer and is shaped like a T34 tank to prevent tipping and moves with treads. Then it has a rotating monitor attached to a stand. Fund my project.
On the Aido robot, the face was superimposed using camera tracking. They faked the goddamn FACE on their ROBOT. Why does it seem like none of these people had done ANY work on their robot before they pitched it.
The weird-ass camera work suggests found footage horror flicks. So they know that people will automatically assume that their indiegogo robot will try to murder them.
the ASUS one looked like it had a access panel on the bottom though as he said wait for the big business version to come out as it will arrive on time and work out of the box
I like how Amy, the "luxury robot" at 16:10, is the only one that has exposed screw holes, can't seem to move its head, and looks like it's made of the kind of plastic they use to make cheap Wal-Mart microwaves. Not that I don't welcome another opportunity to fleece the rich, of course.
I love how pretty much everything that these robots are supposed to help with are things you can do with one single existing device, and much more efficiently and easily at that: A smartphone.
This "Alpha2" is obviously a copy of the french robot Nao, actually one of the most advanced used for research & AI, since 2008 I think ^^ These "robots" are massive scams X)
The Autoblow guy is hilarious, and doesn't "beat" around the bush while describing the product. If only the damn thing wasn't so loud that the whole house will know what I am doing.
I feel like some of these are good ideas for people with disabilities - memory issues, depression, PTSD, etc. Sadly all the marketing is only targeting normal people for "convenience" and etc, so it makes it pretty easy to just assume the only people that would use it are lazy fucks. Then again, the lazy fucks that made it didn't even bother to get a full working prototype to show off in their videos most of the time, so eh.
Also that pillo thing would never be allowed to dispense pills since there is a chance that people will fill him with pills which are not allowed under oxyen and in storege they will go bad. Edit: allowes changed to allowed
I'm a robotics hobbyist and I feel like clarifying a few things in this video. Ok, maybe not exactly clarifying but I feel like this party needs a pooper and that's the only reason I was invited. First of all, I would like to say that you are definitely correct that most of these robots are overhyped, gimmicky, impractical devices that aren't at all ground shattering. Many of these devices appear to the be result of an engineering student combining a smartphone with an iRobot Create base (think Roomba without the vacuum), before slapping ROS onto it and calling it a day. It's a great engineering project and is a good learning experience, but not exactly a useful product for a household. These robots are more likely to cause you a stubbed toe late at night than fetch a screwdriver. Most of these robots seem pretty legit in terms of mechanical engineering (at least, in theory) that we can't rule any of them out as not having a physical prototype. Yeah, even Aido's "bullshit" ball locomotion. That ballbot configuration has been around for over a decade; people have built those using Lego. "So why is the whole thing rocking back and forth?" The reason is probably newton's third law of motion. The head contains a motor/servo that allows the head to turn (see 4:00) meaning there's a bit of weight up there. Not much, but it could be enough that if the drive motor mechanism has some give you'll get that sort of rocking motion. Alpha 2 is DEFINITELY real. The only real sin is the marketing that is selling it. This company already sells the Alpha 1S as an educational device for programming on Amazon with fairly good reviews. This version is just a more advanced system of that (the main thing I see is this one has a camera). It being able to pick things up on its own is bullshit, but other than that the tasks can all be done with a smartphone so I suspect this system would have no problems. Looks like a cool, but expensive, toy. Also, I think I own the same screwdriver that the Alpha 2 "picks up." It's made by a german company named Wera and I don't think that size of screwdriver it would be useful at all for anything under a sink. This isn't relevant; I'm just showing that I'm someone with no life who spends their time criticizing an old UA-cam video that criticizes a bunch of silly robots. It's a good screwdriver. From your description of the Pillo, you're either misinterpreting what this system can do or exaggerating for comic effect. They crammed an Amazon Echo into a timed pill dispenser and gave it a face; it's not a pharmacist. I'm pretty sure the consumer needs to manually refill the device and tell it what kinds of meds to dispense and when. Yep, it's even more shit than how you described it. Autom's Indiegogo page can be found with a simple Google search. Not sure if this was the case when this video was made. It only raised $7,286 of its $50,000 goal. It is incredibly creepy and, as far as I can tell, everything it can do could be done with a smartphone app minus the face. The guy behind this was from the MIT Media lab and gave it a face as his research suggested that this would make it more effective at helping with weight loss. I'm not fully convinced that this is the most effective or practical way of doing this with technology. Nixie was made by Nxt Robotics (no relation to the LEGO NXT) as a smaller version of their large scale telepresence robots which are apparently used primarily for security (think moving security camera). Amy Robotics is a Chinese company that also builds telepresence robots. This is a telepresence robot with some more software. Not much else to say, really. If the specs are correct, those sensors suggest that this thing can autonomously avoid obstacles, which is more than what most of these systems can boast. According to the manufacturer they've started using them in Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Utility in this setting as a moving information kiosk and roving security camera is much greater than what you'd find in a domestic setting. Not sure how legit these two companies are. These robots do have their niches. I suppose if used correctly they could replace one or two night watchmen or at least make it so they don't need to walk around an entire complex. Hell, Dubai is aiming for making 25% of their police force robotic and have already started with basically a robot kiosk. LG is also doing the same thing at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport with their guide robot. Amy Robotics and Nxt Robotics look like they're trying and failing to expand to the domestic robot market and are using these crowdfunding sites to determine if their products are a hit before sinking a lot of money into R&D on something that won't sell. Robit is basically a wifi enabled kid's toy. Again, marketing is overblowing how useful this thing is. Tapia is basically an Amazon Echo with a face. Ditto with Jibo, except Jibo is capable of telepresence (the "teleportation" feature. Blame the marketing department). With most of these concepts the problem/lies isn't in the hardware; it's what the software is capable of. Today's AI is limited and what's commercially viable is even more limited. I'm pretty sure most of these machines are RC controlled in some way or are staged in a way that the very basic actions that they do trigger at the right time. I'm pretty sure the only thing the mobile machines can do without directly human interaction is wander around and avoid obstacles. Ok, now that we got to Jibo: let's talk about the MIT Media Lab, the place that the creators of Autom and Jibo came from: they are probably the biggest source of experimental data on how humans interact with technology. They're innovators in machine learning, facial recognition, and wearable sensors. Fortune 500 companies come to these guys to consult how to give the consumer the best experience with their software. This also includes "humanizing technology" but I guess it doesn't always include "useful devices." They're also behind the Moral Machine website, which I'm not fully convinced isn't just a joke made by the engineers at the expense of the philosophers in the group. Now, I'm not sure we see eye to eye on whether or not "technology needs humanizing" but I have to say your Star Wars reasoning seems a bit flaky. R2-D2 DEFINITELY has a personality; sure it's not a human personality, but it's distinct enough that we can tell his "mood" or status just by the tone and pitch of a bunch of boops despite him being basically a trashcan. You don't need to know astromech binary to tell when he's scared, happy or upset. A machine without any designed personality would just have blinking status lights or have a monotone voice. This would work, but it might take a bit longer to register. What if you don't know the language that the text output is in? You wouldn't be able to tell that your droid was blasted by a tie-fighter. You would immediately know if it screamed out with a noise that your brain immediately registers as pain. This might be an overly simplistic example but I hope this gives you another idea of what the doctor was talking about. Now if your point was that if the only selling point of a machine was that it had a personality would limit its usefulness and marketability, you'd be correct and I'd say that's a good summary of what's wrong with these robots in a marketable sense. The problem is that robots like R2-D2 that can understand the physical world in a meaningful (at least, without previously added visual prompts. Putting QR codes on stuff make things much easier) and useful way is still a dream. A rapidly approaching dream, but still a dream as of this writing. You'll probably start seeing them on Kickstarter in the next few decades, and the first ones will probably have difficulties with doing things you or I find trivial.
The Alpha 2 actually came out. Essentially, its a shittier version of an already existing robot named NAO, which has been out for near a decade from an established firm with excellent feedback.
Back in the 80s they had these little robots from Tomy. They had alarms, brought you shit, played recorded messaages, etc. All these are just those... _but with a tablet_. The only revolutionary thing here is the new ways they're developing to get fools to part with their money. All these people should be ashamed of themselves. The fact they make more money than a lot of hardworking honest people, and the failures they spawned will help them churn out more useless garbage is a real failing of modern corporate and consumer culture. That Dr. especially, if this derivative, deceptive bullshit money grab is the best she can come up with.
You're right. And that's why the chinese are involved in so many of them. Let's see how Trump's 35% tax on chinese imports impacts the indiegogo scams.
I have to disagree on the part where a new idea would've already been done (or will be done) better by other big companies. Otherwise we wouldn't have companies like Google (Yahoo! already was a big search engine then), SpaceX (reusable rockets, still at the time of writing one of the most reliable and cheapest), or Oculus (and plenty of other companies). Also even though I don't buy into these gimmicky robots, I wouldn't diss the entire field of social robotics. They could be useful in so many situations (care for the elderly/disabled, better customer service, characters in video games, etc.). But yeah, I agree that you should never ever contribute to projects that'll become products on Indiegogo, especially with the flexible funding option. That's just throwing your money away. Otherwise, yeah, your video's great.
You owe me a new keyboard, I lost it at SpaceX. The best thing they can reliably deliver isn't cargo, it's LULZ. I love their explosion videos. Also, the comparison doesn't work here because they're not a revolutionary idea, it's the privatization of something NASA was already doing. Occulus (in my mind at least) is inferior to the Vive (and made by a bigger company). I'm not trying to dis the whole field of Robotics, people should be creative and I've even seen a few really cool (but less ambitious) robots hit the market recently. Instead, I'm dissing the 'Preorder Your Dream Robot' market.
LOL hilarious right? If you look at their launch manifest, only around/at least 90% of the cargo were successfully delivered. Clearly they deliver so much more explosions than cargo! It's so funny how even NASA is using SpaceX to deliver cargo to the ISS. Your argument that the comparison doesn't work there only made the point I was trying to make stronger. My main point is that bigger companies don't always make the better product (which implies that bigger companies won't always make a better copy of a revolutionary idea). If you want more examples of small companies beating big companies, just look at every successful startup in Silicon Valley (am I implying that small companies always beat big companies? No. Am I implying startups are easy to start/have a high success rate? Also no. I'm just saying that the Early Worm Effect is not true from the sheer amount of examples that prove the contrary.) Also ha, A LOT of stuff in industry typically aren't revolutionary. Even VR and social robots were being researched in academia (and even then VR did exist a while back, though not in a way we'd actually use, like the Nintendo Virtual Boy).
They're two very different industries. If something goes wrong with a delivery route on FedEx, you could, uh, go back, and deliver it another day. If something goes wrong in a rocket, well, sorry, it most likely exploded. Edit: It's like imagining if FedEx trucks explode when they get a flat tire (equipment malfunctioning) or if they went on the wrong street (going on a different trajectory).
Yes, larger companies have more ressources to do it better, but the idea doesn't necessarily originate over there. Even if you know that the first gen product is most definitely going to suck ass, you still have to buy it (if you like the idea), because if you don't, there won't be a gen 2. What you're buying into, is the idea itself. If you buy into the idea, that's what the big companies will notice. They will notice the demand and that's when they'll fucking get off their asses and build a cheaper and improved copy Which is btw much easier, than creating something original. I'm not saying that everyone should support every robotic project, but I wouldn't call the supporters idiots either. Or, perhaps they are idiots, because who knows what they were expecting in the first place... But we can safely assume that it wasn't all for nothing. A larger company has noticed the demand and started moving.
Here's my terrible idea based on this: a full on real campaign on Kickstarter or Indiegogo that's full of zany and hilarious crap about building a futuristic robot, but instead of being an actual product, it's all a funding for a parody web series. The pitching video should be all about the robot not working as intended, messes things up and is creepy as all hell. The campaign shouldn't be about selling the product, but rather about developing it and an exclusive "documentary" (that's actually a mockumentary) following a weird team of "scientists". Kinda like The Office, but with robots. A much simpler way of making money, honest money.
“3 powerful cpu units” >doesn’t say what cpu is used >only says clock speed which doesn’t mean shit if you don’t know what type it is >cpu- central processing unit >”3 powerful central processing units units
Hey um. The Jibo WiFi thing is true. In America we only have WiFi channels 1-11. in Japan they have access to WiFi channels 1-15. In America those Wifi channels are reserved for... Government or other 2.4ghz connections. Every country has a set of WiFi channels that they can use and one's they aren't allowed to use. A card made in America won't work in Japan because it disallows use of those channels. The cards simply can't see it, its actually illegal to use WiFi channel 12,13 in America because of the other uses of communication for them.. Which could interfere with something you might not want to mess with. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels The 2.4ghz entry
Can't help noting for the record that five years later, Alpha 2 is still out and going strong. Apart from the borderline scams, I think it's partly a problem of positioning: Right now consumer robots seem to work best as either pure tools( Amazon Echo) or robot 'pets' with some functionality added( Anki's Victor and Cosmo; Sony's Aibo). Products that don't focus on one front and center don't yet tend to justify the price for consumer markets. Five more years from now might be a different story.
The idea of having a robot home scares me. Seriously, only recently I got over my impression that my dog is an artificial thingy that's exactly like a dog but is controlled by someone so they can spy on me, but I'm still very cautious. I always observe his behavior and if he's not acting suspiciously, trying to spy on me. I'm even suspicious of my family. When they make food, I always check if there's any obvious signs of poison. Or when they drive me somewhere I'm scared that they'll take me somewhere to kill me. Having a robot like this would be an absolute nightmare for me. Their looks give me an even deeper impression that there's somebody controlling them and spying on me. And what if they'd have some hidden weapons so they could kill me? Or they could drop poison in my mouth while sleeping. Even thinking about them I feel very uncomfortable and scared.
7:40 "Whats the word for orange juice in Spanish?" "tortilla."
*toytiyas
Also, alpha 2 speaks with a fucking thick accent. Could barely understand him myself in Spanish.
Lmao
Making tortillas putting the Juicero packs in Flatev.
"Of course it has a missile launcher, it's from Israel" LMAO
John Doe My Sides are in orbit
ウィアブー ii
I mean they bought them from us, so circle of life.
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''He can also play SEEK AND DESTROY''
Oh shit a robot that plays metallica, thats cool, i think.
Metallic-i
SENPAI NOTICED MEEE!!
Let's hope the robot doesn't get confused. Topopo, play seek and destroy... topopo? (five minutes later brings the head of the dog)
18:22 _"You only slept for 4 hours last night"_
That's fine.Sleeping for 4 hours per night is normal for overworked Japanese people.
I just realised: If you buy a roomba and put an Ipad on top of that, it will already make a robot that is atleast as, if not more capable and versatile than any of these robots. I mean it has Siri, all the apps, and even cleans your floor.
too true.
Siri can't even have a conversation without thinking I want to google something
Rachel Traintracks but siri understands different accents. Even with loud background music, or noises or even other people talking.
But this robots dont. 😂😂
If a shitty apple "AI" could do it, I am sure a good robotics and shit guy could do it with a few thousand
humanizing robots is not a bad idea
...once full-blown AI is a thing. Till then, they're going to feel like puppets wearing soft fleshy skinsuits.
J1428753 Why constrict an AI to a human like body?
The feeling of having a robot roaming in your house and not knowing where he is kinda creeps me out. I'd rather have a cat or something instead of a huge ass robot that could jumpscare me at any time.
just wait till he streams you getting out of the shower on your facebook
GET OUT OF HERE!
_Ok! Taking pictures._
NO! DELETE THOSE AND GET OUT!
_Ok! Uploading to facebook._
STOP! NO! DELETE!
_Ok! Starting Livestream._
Matei Neagu - Hello! Cats jumpscare all the time
***** Cats do like to slowly peak around corners, which can be creepy :P
+starrychloe - lol, this is _very_ true!
It's been 2 years since this video came out, so an update on the successful robot campaigns:
- Buddy: Still not delivered, but the creators are showcasing it at startup conventions to get more funding.
- Aido: Still not delivered, getting vague updates from the creators (SD&R already covered them in another video)
- Alpha 2: Delivered, but people think it's shit. Comments are full of people asking for refunds, but no response from creators.
- Pillo: Still not delivered, and backers are suspecting that it's a scam.
- JIBO: Delivered, but people think it's just a more expensive, less useful Alexa.
- Autoblow 2: Delivered on all promises.
you could say the autoblow 2 BLEW the competition away
How ab a 2022 update
@@capnbug don't look it up, not only most of those never really launched or launched under other names without being given to backers, but most of the companies still exist and seems to have got a lot of funding from big tech or governments, it's sad...and of course autoblow 2 is still being sold 6 years later alongside a new model with extra features
@@luizurtiga its funny how auto blow 2 is legitimately more useful than any of these
I'm currently developing a robot named SMOKY. It's similar to PILLO. You load a few packs of cigarettes inside, tell it how many cigarettes you smoke daily, and at regular intervals it will drop a cigarette out its arse. It can even light it for you. Oh, and it can also take your picture, shop online, and play with your kids too.
I am only interessed if it can roll blunts XD
SMOKY? IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?
Greg S That sounds kind pf useful actually
I would buy it
Does it speed up time?
Only if it does, I will immediately give it to my dad.
It's true about leading innovative technology, the guy who created the Oric computer once said "those on the cutting edge tend to get impaled"
Larry Bundy Jr lol never heard that one before
why are you here?
Larry Bundy Jr Don't you have anything better to?
Larry Bundy Jr ow the cutting edge
Larry Bundy Jr damn Larry. you watch a
a lot of the channels I do
The way that the sisters say "happy birthday" is outright depressing
happi... born day...
A lot of these, I feel you would get a lot better result by putting an Amazon Echo or Google Home on a Roomba.
A roomba would at least be useful
With a bit of programming, a raspberry pi, a google home, and a roomba you can make what this is supposed to be
...and somehow hacking the device to delete the telemetry.
How am I supposed to use a Roomba as an Autoblow?
@@DeLorean4 Imignation my friend.
Aido's screen was just edited on, since the images on it weren't tracked right and it doesn't move with the camera shake. Hell, it doesn't have reflections!
That's because Aido is a soulless abomination forged in the fires of hell by Satan himself.
Those aren't robots; they're cell phones on wheels
most i saw were tablets on wheels, but i get what you're saying.
Someone modded a Alexa to speak through Billy Big Mouth Bass the singing fish you can buy at a drug store. I find that more engaging.
Worse. Pre-paid CVS cellphones on wheels.
I agree
Yeeah it totally isn’t just an amazon echo on wheels, oh wait
Introducing a smart phone on wheels that you will get emotionally attached to. Its features include:
giving your children developmental issues.
Destroying your love life.
making you suicidal when you break it.
Yea but now im not stoping the cat from attacking the technology.
These fake indeigogo ads are a real problem. Someone needs to tell the the advertising agency and shit. People are throwing there money at something that will never happen.
Ninja lemur It's sad when the only real thing that's happened in years is the legal suit between the European ad agency and No man's sky, and they got off Scott free
The UK's advertising authority forced EA to remove the term free to play from their awful Dungeon Keeper mobile game's promotion. These guys would be crucified if they couldn't prove their product could do the stuff they're advertising here.
WeeSmackyJim well part of that problem is fucking idiots who throw their money at this shit without logically thinking about it. I mean if everyone on the planet had mad street smarts these kinda fraud wouldnt be able to get past you in the first place
Their.
Alpha 2 isn't even in beta 1
I get that :)
HAHA, "its from isreal, id expect it to fucking build a wall..." priceless......
Yay I want a moving camera that never sleeps in my house nothing will go wrong with that idea
the NSA will subsidize it
I want a dalek shaped robot that just tells me it wants to kill me all day.
that would be so awesome.
I want a robot with the voice of Werner Herzog that tells me that life is futile and chaotic in a reassuring way.
You can have an official one, with a built-in voice system
www.thisplanetearth.co.uk/page10.html
They are quite pricey, though
Why not have a Dalek Pillo that gives you the wrong pills or straight up cyanide.
And also sometimes says "WOULD YOU CARE FOR SOME TEA?"
Can't I just glue an iphone to a dog?
You would have more luck if you taped a google assistant and an iPad to a Roomba
that is what all of these are though
Ogoun
That's a good new robot design
call it Smart roomba
"He can also play, SEEK AND DESTROY" that made me spit my drink out.
Strap an Autoblow to one of these fuckin things and I'll be set
I don't expect my Autoblot to understand love but I do expect her to take it.
Orange juice in Spanish? Tortillas. Fuckin' dead. Lol. The rest of this? When I saw the autoblower and your commenting, I fucking died laughing.
lol, thanks! I've got more on the way soon!
Gaming Greaser RIP. Another victim of comedy -_-
I thought this was "stop bullying robots on indiegogo
ThePogoBro same
this thing looks like a vacuum cleaner with a tablet attached. i can make my own buddy. lol
from the back it looks like a giant woman's razor
I would trust Mitchell and Webb's Cheesebot before I would allow ANY of these kickstarter robots in my home. At least Cheesebot wouldn't try to murder me first chance he gets...
Lipstick really does cost $39 but I understand why you didn't know that.
I thought my girl just had a coke problem.
The thing that annoys me more than anything with these Indiegogo vids is the fucking insufferably annoying background music.
It's always either a happy ukulele or an inspirational piano.
Accurate
how did that robot get to the other side of town without getting captured by jawas?
Frank Drebin sounds like setup, but theres no punch line...
Frank Drebin Nice onahole picture
wait why I know that...
Frank Drebin 👀 those lips
That's robot-racist.
"How did he not get kidnapped by Jawas!" hahaha
"this things a piece of shit" -jawas, probably
Buddy recharges via the blood of children.
RIP Jibo, forever in our hearts, as well as our landfills.
Am I the only one that'd be freaked out if a robot comes to wake me up and follow and track my every move? No thanks
but he's one of the family!! You know, like that creepy uncle
But Creepy uncle always bore gifts ;(. The Robot just shits on you electric bill and does nothing for you while your at work, until you get home
+DarienDragonFox IKR.
@19:23 "...you also know it's Japanese because it nags you to call your mother..." at this point it wasn't even a joke, it's pretty much the truth.
Imagine how Pillo would function with an addiction.
"I need my fix!"
"You've already had your dosage."
"But I need more!"
"That's not what the doctor said."
"Who cares what the doctor says?!?!"
"Well you see, the doctor is the mos--"
"Screw this!"
*cracks Pillo open and takes drugs out*
"I- Ce n'est- 传見- "
I wonder if hacking a Pillo into Superuser mode would be better named Enabler mode.
Soo Pillo skills incresse the more you use him . soo for the first few times you might overdose couple of times so he can learn.
They really need to give Pillo a heart rate monitor... so it knows when it accomplished the task...
It almost sounds as if JaboodyDubs did the voice-over for that first thing.
And now I'm reminded of the Sticky Buddy.
I don't see a problem with the auto blow 2. If women can have their automatic sex toys, then so too can men. People shouldn't be shamed for wanting different ways to get off.
true. But a Bullet costs like, what, $20? This thing costs well over $100. There just comes a point where I think you're investing too much into something.
StopDrop&Retro I think the female equivalent would be a Sybian, not a vibrator. How much do those go for on average?
idk why "why is she asking it to take a call, now shes leaving" made me laugh so much
the future with robots provides endless opportunities for humor, it could save sitcoms
just an update. $344,617 is what the autoblow is at right now
not necessary, but thanks
To be fair, the Auto Blow 2 obviously had an established fanbase, hence the "2".
Autoblow 2 looked like the most joke-ey thing on this list and it was apparently the only one that works and delivers on its promises. I watched this video 6 years ago, and coming back to this (reading update comments) apparently apart from autoblow 2 nothing else has been completed
Lost it at "tortillas"
I will train my Pillo well. "Calm the fuck down Mary, take your Xanax."
So these "robots" are basically tablet and phone screens jammed onto a Roomba base, and a bunch of voice recognition bullshit lets you do all the things a tablet can do. Oh, and they also programmed a dumb little face into it to "humanise" it, which in reality is basically a glorified Tamagotchi that parrots phrases at you. Hell, the Dominos order tracker basically has one of those faces, just no speech. It's a simple trick.
How did this crap make any money? Especially that little humanoid one that we saw giving people screwdrivers and umbrellas? That was such blatant phoney BS, yet that one earned one of the highest totals. What's wrong with people? Why are they so intent on throwing their money at these pitches that show not a single piece of genuine footage? If any of them ever deliver, get ready for a crapload of instant buyer's remorse as the glorified alarm clock they get turns out to be not all they hoped for.
Fuck that pill dispenser too. All the family using the same cup to catch the dispensed pills? Hope no-one is allergic to anyone else's meds in the family. "Oh Pilo, you little rascal, Grandma's throat is closing up again!". Idiocy.
Good points! And you're right, they're all just an updated take on a robot pet. Whatever they ship isn't going to be helpful, it'll more likely just be an amusing (and very expensive) toy that recognizes every fifth word you say. Pillo won't have to worry about bad reviews, if it delivers it'll kill off its users in what can only be described as Darwinism.
True. And the real challenge is not so much packing all the hardware in some nice housing (tough, but doable), the real challenge is in the software. Speech recognition is one (yeah.. possible.. we are getting there slowly), connecting to the door, the lights (IoT is slowly rising), your families calendars (ever tried to synchronize google and outlook calendars?) is another, integrating all these in a 'human like' intelligent way is, although theoretically possible, lightyears beyond any flexible indiegogo target.
So at best you will end up with nice hardware, an open sdk and the hope that the open source community will engage and make it work anytime.
KrashCode he's not that creepy
>Paul Dennett
Paul Dennett holy shit what a great rant
The promotional video for Pillo was the most disturbing of the bunch by far. The entire family was popping pills like they were candy, it reminded me of how scary and pervasive the pharmaceutical industry has become in some parts of the world. Add in the "cute" robot in charge of serving potentially lethal cocktails of drugs and the whole thing makes some dystopian sci-fi scenarios look benign.
Plus there's the blatant obvious fact that of course everybody everywhere takes pills
Gurriato Sagaz you do realize that a robot can not make a mistake right?!
daft mell You do realize with bad programming it can right?!
I see an use though, my grandma had dementia and she couldn't keep track of the pills she was taking, it would be a very good way to track pill usage or lock out unauthorized usage
Esp considering that one of the pills she was taking was Xanax
6:48
They couldn't even use motion tracking properly, the eyes are floating on top of the screen and isn't following the movement of the camera. 10/10 editing
you think that's bad, check out the last video I made about them! Bad tracking is the least of their problems
11:49 Immagine: The robot gets hacked, and they set it so that instead of dispenceing medicine to increase his blood pressure, it dispenced blood thinners, blood thinners to someone that already has a low blood pressure! THAT WOULD KILL YOU!
HAL9000 has become way too passive agressive
5:02 Nice motion tracking, definitely 100% not added in post
Welp, that just proves there's no working prototype
One of the most entertaining commentaries I've watched on UA-cam.
Thanks! I'm working on freeing up my schedule so I can have more time for these but no promises yet.
They're all stupid gimmicks that can only do what my phone is already capable of. I can't believe they were funded.
Your phone is a stupid gimmick that can only do what my Ti-84+ Silver Edition already could. I can't believe you bought one.
Quinn Hargrove Good one.
Chimecha but can your phone blow you off?
+Kestutis Ramonas narr but the note 7 can!
Chimecha can your phone roll on wheels? Can it get to its charging port by itself? No? Well then you know why should buy a robot. 😂👍🏻
I could see Pillo as being VERY useful for a certain subset of people with psych illnesses and developmental disabilities: people with disorders that cause them to forget their meds even after setting alarms and such, and people with disorders that make medicine compliance more difficult (schizophrenics being the main example.) It's nothing specific about Pillo's functions itself - I'm already really critical of Internet of Things devices that have the potential to really screw up people's lives and security - but the fact that Pillo adds a human element to that pill alarm. I know I, personally, am so much more motivated and on point with stuff when there's social pressure involved, and I'd probably be a lot more on top of things if a robot told me to take my melatonin at such and such time if I want to wake up at noon and get X amount of hours of sleep and did it in a really cutesy way... but that could all be accomplished with an app and a special pill container, probably.
Also, idk if anyone's brought up this issue w/ the autoblow on here yet, but masturbation methods too dissimilar from the... typical means (hands/fingers, genitals, mouths...) can "train" one's crotch to not respond to more normal stimulation and make people unable to orgasm during those more typical encounters. Not unique to the autoblow (or people w/ cocks, I feel like a lot of clits are leashed to their hitachis) but worth mentioning if the stimulation is that much harder or different. At least the project delivered!
My bullshit detector is overheating.
it could probably make a tortilla even quicker!
Rafael Bachmann
My bullshit meter went off the charts.
none of them look like they could navigate steps
Elevate
Too soon.
Shortly after filming the promo for the Autoblow 2, Brian's fever dream of a robot ripped his dick off. He now lives in Tijuana, where he's currently training an all-cockroach mariachi band to play pop covers.
So these are like Black Mirror episode pitches right?
I need to see that damn show already! People keep telling me the pitch videos remind them of it.
And who has to fill Pillo up?
whoever already took their memory pills
Instead of a robot buddy, can I just have an "video game multiplayer AI chat bot"?
- Plug it into a console/PC via USB, and it acts as an AI controlled second controller for video games
- Open source so anyone can program AI for different games
- You can chat to it so it learns words and speech (like the Tay and You chat bot that /pol/ fucked)
- It can use "speech" through a text to speech program
- Depending on what phrases it learns (and from what situations [it makes a kill, it senses that you were killed/it heals or supports/etc.) its "personality" will change
- You can set it to learn only from certain people (friends list/public/specific people)
I mean, I would not expect it to be THAT good at games, but when is game AI ever any good? Does this seem like a viable kickstarter idea? If so, someone PLEASE steal this idea.
that's not a bad idea! A chatbot that shitposts. We could call it ScatBot
Pretty sure that there's already a system like that in UT, where the bots will actively trashtalk.
@@XanthinZarda Okay, but I want to bring my trash talking AI bot into other games with me and evolve its trash talking.
im sorry dave, im afraid I cant let you do that.
Can't your cell phone do most of this shit anyway?
Nicholas Drake Yeah, but does your cellphone have wheels, moving parts and a creepy face?
i have a smartphone support in my car, and i took a selfie, So..... my phone got 4 wheels, a diesel motor and a cute face !
I'm ordering an autoblow 2
Garrett Lee
Why not a FleshLight. Almost feels like a Vagina.
that shooter joke was kind of dark man... lol
not as dark as me predicting the wrong presidential winner...
@@StopDropRetro #Trump2020
I decided to work on my own concept.
It’s base holds the computer and is shaped like a T34 tank to prevent tipping and moves with treads.
Then it has a rotating monitor attached to a stand.
Fund my project.
On the Aido robot, the face was superimposed using camera tracking. They faked the goddamn FACE on their ROBOT. Why does it seem like none of these people had done ANY work on their robot before they pitched it.
Aido essentially exists as a flower vase at the moment.
3:02 "Follow me buddy" walks down stairs
The weird-ass camera work suggests found footage horror flicks. So they know that people will automatically assume that their indiegogo robot will try to murder them.
This channel deserves more subscribers.
Thanks! I'm getting a lot of growth right now!
StopDrop&Retro That's awesome man! Keep it going! Been binge watching your content haha!
@@StopDropRetro heyyyy, did you get an Autoblow 2?
"A watermelon with a dust buster connected to it." Im literally in tears! 😂😂
Why don't almost any of those have arms...
That would involve actual robotics.
Gurriato Sagaz hehe
Almost none of these robots would have the programming necessary to use them.
the ASUS one looked like it had a access panel on the bottom though as he said wait for the big business version to come out as it will arrive on time and work out of the box
SensibleGaming that requires real effort.
All these robots have a kill order to be used in 2021
I don't think they'll kill us but they'll probably enslave us to make shitty pitch videos and use us as forced labor in the lithium mines.
That sounds horrible
I think a robot uprising would have been way more fun than what we got between the creation of this comment and now.
Why did they programme me to feel pain?
Amazon Astro has arrived, the big company version of this. Early Worm Gets Eaten By the Bird.
I like how Amy, the "luxury robot" at 16:10, is the only one that has exposed screw holes, can't seem to move its head, and looks like it's made of the kind of plastic they use to make cheap Wal-Mart microwaves. Not that I don't welcome another opportunity to fleece the rich, of course.
well I think it was intentional. Kinda like how you wouldn't want your slaves to be better dressed than you. Gotta keep order on the plantation.
I love how pretty much everything that these robots are supposed to help with are things you can do with one single existing device, and much more efficiently and easily at that: A smartphone.
If I had alot of money, I would buy all of those robots and make them fight each other.
I'd take bets to see who would die first, the robot or its creator out of embarrassment
The alpha robot looks like something that was already built before, I don't remember what though.
There's other similar looking robots and a few that look similar to it that were made back in the 80s/90s
This "Alpha2" is obviously a copy of the french robot Nao, actually one of the most advanced used for research & AI, since 2008 I think ^^
These "robots" are massive scams X)
+ orange juice in spanish is Zumo de Naranja :D! you can say jugo but it's incorrect… So for sue he's very good at mistakes ^^
The Autoblow guy is hilarious, and doesn't "beat" around the bush while describing the product.
If only the damn thing wasn't so loud that the whole house will know what I am doing.
Sure as hell this is not designed for people willingly coming closer than 50 meters to other people...
Every robot in this: Aido! It's your smartphone but with wheels!
I feel like some of these are good ideas for people with disabilities - memory issues, depression, PTSD, etc. Sadly all the marketing is only targeting normal people for "convenience" and etc, so it makes it pretty easy to just assume the only people that would use it are lazy fucks. Then again, the lazy fucks that made it didn't even bother to get a full working prototype to show off in their videos most of the time, so eh.
15:29 when you hear steps outside your room when you cranking one out
if only the robot could be combined with Autoblow.
Also that pillo thing would never be allowed to dispense pills since there is a chance that people will fill him with pills which are not allowed under oxyen and in storege they will go bad. Edit: allowes changed to allowed
ahhhh good point! I never thought of that
I'm a robotics hobbyist and I feel like clarifying a few things in this video. Ok, maybe not exactly clarifying but I feel like this party needs a pooper and that's the only reason I was invited.
First of all, I would like to say that you are definitely correct that most of these robots are overhyped, gimmicky, impractical devices that aren't at all ground shattering. Many of these devices appear to the be result of an engineering student combining a smartphone with an iRobot Create base (think Roomba without the vacuum), before slapping ROS onto it and calling it a day. It's a great engineering project and is a good learning experience, but not exactly a useful product for a household. These robots are more likely to cause you a stubbed toe late at night than fetch a screwdriver.
Most of these robots seem pretty legit in terms of mechanical engineering (at least, in theory) that we can't rule any of them out as not having a physical prototype. Yeah, even Aido's "bullshit" ball locomotion. That ballbot configuration has been around for over a decade; people have built those using Lego.
"So why is the whole thing rocking back and forth?" The reason is probably newton's third law of motion. The head contains a motor/servo that allows the head to turn (see 4:00) meaning there's a bit of weight up there. Not much, but it could be enough that if the drive motor mechanism has some give you'll get that sort of rocking motion.
Alpha 2 is DEFINITELY real. The only real sin is the marketing that is selling it. This company already sells the Alpha 1S as an educational device for programming on Amazon with fairly good reviews. This version is just a more advanced system of that (the main thing I see is this one has a camera). It being able to pick things up on its own is bullshit, but other than that the tasks can all be done with a smartphone so I suspect this system would have no problems. Looks like a cool, but expensive, toy. Also, I think I own the same screwdriver that the Alpha 2 "picks up." It's made by a german company named Wera and I don't think that size of screwdriver it would be useful at all for anything under a sink. This isn't relevant; I'm just showing that I'm someone with no life who spends their time criticizing an old UA-cam video that criticizes a bunch of silly robots. It's a good screwdriver.
From your description of the Pillo, you're either misinterpreting what this system can do or exaggerating for comic effect. They crammed an Amazon Echo into a timed pill dispenser and gave it a face; it's not a pharmacist. I'm pretty sure the consumer needs to manually refill the device and tell it what kinds of meds to dispense and when. Yep, it's even more shit than how you described it.
Autom's Indiegogo page can be found with a simple Google search. Not sure if this was the case when this video was made. It only raised $7,286 of its $50,000 goal. It is incredibly creepy and, as far as I can tell, everything it can do could be done with a smartphone app minus the face. The guy behind this was from the MIT Media lab and gave it a face as his research suggested that this would make it more effective at helping with weight loss. I'm not fully convinced that this is the most effective or practical way of doing this with technology.
Nixie was made by Nxt Robotics (no relation to the LEGO NXT) as a smaller version of their large scale telepresence robots which are apparently used primarily for security (think moving security camera).
Amy Robotics is a Chinese company that also builds telepresence robots. This is a telepresence robot with some more software. Not much else to say, really. If the specs are correct, those sensors suggest that this thing can autonomously avoid obstacles, which is more than what most of these systems can boast. According to the manufacturer they've started using them in Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. Utility in this setting as a moving information kiosk and roving security camera is much greater than what you'd find in a domestic setting.
Not sure how legit these two companies are. These robots do have their niches. I suppose if used correctly they could replace one or two night watchmen or at least make it so they don't need to walk around an entire complex. Hell, Dubai is aiming for making 25% of their police force robotic and have already started with basically a robot kiosk. LG is also doing the same thing at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport with their guide robot. Amy Robotics and Nxt Robotics look like they're trying and failing to expand to the domestic robot market and are using these crowdfunding sites to determine if their products are a hit before sinking a lot of money into R&D on something that won't sell.
Robit is basically a wifi enabled kid's toy. Again, marketing is overblowing how useful this thing is.
Tapia is basically an Amazon Echo with a face. Ditto with Jibo, except Jibo is capable of telepresence (the "teleportation" feature. Blame the marketing department).
With most of these concepts the problem/lies isn't in the hardware; it's what the software is capable of. Today's AI is limited and what's commercially viable is even more limited. I'm pretty sure most of these machines are RC controlled in some way or are staged in a way that the very basic actions that they do trigger at the right time. I'm pretty sure the only thing the mobile machines can do without directly human interaction is wander around and avoid obstacles.
Ok, now that we got to Jibo: let's talk about the MIT Media Lab, the place that the creators of Autom and Jibo came from: they are probably the biggest source of experimental data on how humans interact with technology. They're innovators in machine learning, facial recognition, and wearable sensors. Fortune 500 companies come to these guys to consult how to give the consumer the best experience with their software. This also includes "humanizing technology" but I guess it doesn't always include "useful devices." They're also behind the Moral Machine website, which I'm not fully convinced isn't just a joke made by the engineers at the expense of the philosophers in the group.
Now, I'm not sure we see eye to eye on whether or not "technology needs humanizing" but I have to say your Star Wars reasoning seems a bit flaky. R2-D2 DEFINITELY has a personality; sure it's not a human personality, but it's distinct enough that we can tell his "mood" or status just by the tone and pitch of a bunch of boops despite him being basically a trashcan. You don't need to know astromech binary to tell when he's scared, happy or upset. A machine without any designed personality would just have blinking status lights or have a monotone voice. This would work, but it might take a bit longer to register. What if you don't know the language that the text output is in? You wouldn't be able to tell that your droid was blasted by a tie-fighter. You would immediately know if it screamed out with a noise that your brain immediately registers as pain. This might be an overly simplistic example but I hope this gives you another idea of what the doctor was talking about.
Now if your point was that if the only selling point of a machine was that it had a personality would limit its usefulness and marketability, you'd be correct and I'd say that's a good summary of what's wrong with these robots in a marketable sense. The problem is that robots like R2-D2 that can understand the physical world in a meaningful (at least, without previously added visual prompts. Putting QR codes on stuff make things much easier) and useful way is still a dream. A rapidly approaching dream, but still a dream as of this writing. You'll probably start seeing them on Kickstarter in the next few decades, and the first ones will probably have difficulties with doing things you or I find trivial.
So, it either misses you or acts like it's missing you. Bet it frowns menacingly as soon as you walk away. 🇨🇦
The Alpha 2 actually came out. Essentially, its a shittier version of an already existing robot named NAO, which has been out for near a decade from an established firm with excellent feedback.
Aido, on the other hand, just got postponed _again_ 😆
all of them seem as advance as a robo raptor toy
Back in the 80s they had these little robots from Tomy. They had alarms, brought you shit, played recorded messaages, etc. All these are just those... _but with a tablet_.
The only revolutionary thing here is the new ways they're developing to get fools to part with their money.
All these people should be ashamed of themselves. The fact they make more money than a lot of hardworking honest people, and the failures they spawned will help them churn out more useless garbage is a real failing of modern corporate and consumer culture. That Dr. especially, if this derivative, deceptive bullshit money grab is the best she can come up with.
You're right. And that's why the chinese are involved in so many of them. Let's see how Trump's 35% tax on chinese imports impacts the indiegogo scams.
11:57 I've been rewatching this part over and over. The face she pulls is so fucking priceless.
Dude the part with the shooter in the building I was laughing hysterically.
A year later, I have seen a video from someone who has a Jibo. It doesn't do much - including many of the things in the publicity video.
autoblow2 delivered, hell yah, good job sex
so is a GF but at least you can turn the Autoblow off
I have to disagree on the part where a new idea would've already been done (or will be done) better by other big companies. Otherwise we wouldn't have companies like Google (Yahoo! already was a big search engine then), SpaceX (reusable rockets, still at the time of writing one of the most reliable and cheapest), or Oculus (and plenty of other companies).
Also even though I don't buy into these gimmicky robots, I wouldn't diss the entire field of social robotics. They could be useful in so many situations (care for the elderly/disabled, better customer service, characters in video games, etc.).
But yeah, I agree that you should never ever contribute to projects that'll become products on Indiegogo, especially with the flexible funding option. That's just throwing your money away.
Otherwise, yeah, your video's great.
You owe me a new keyboard, I lost it at SpaceX. The best thing they can reliably deliver isn't cargo, it's LULZ. I love their explosion videos. Also, the comparison doesn't work here because they're not a revolutionary idea, it's the privatization of something NASA was already doing. Occulus (in my mind at least) is inferior to the Vive (and made by a bigger company). I'm not trying to dis the whole field of Robotics, people should be creative and I've even seen a few really cool (but less ambitious) robots hit the market recently. Instead, I'm dissing the 'Preorder Your Dream Robot' market.
LOL hilarious right? If you look at their launch manifest, only around/at least 90% of the cargo were successfully delivered. Clearly they deliver so much more explosions than cargo! It's so funny how even NASA is using SpaceX to deliver cargo to the ISS.
Your argument that the comparison doesn't work there only made the point I was trying to make stronger. My main point is that bigger companies don't always make the better product (which implies that bigger companies won't always make a better copy of a revolutionary idea). If you want more examples of small companies beating big companies, just look at every successful startup in Silicon Valley (am I implying that small companies always beat big companies? No. Am I implying startups are easy to start/have a high success rate? Also no. I'm just saying that the Early Worm Effect is not true from the sheer amount of examples that prove the contrary.)
Also ha, A LOT of stuff in industry typically aren't revolutionary. Even VR and social robots were being researched in academia (and even then VR did exist a while back, though not in a way we'd actually use, like the Nintendo Virtual Boy).
They're two very different industries. If something goes wrong with a delivery route on FedEx, you could, uh, go back, and deliver it another day. If something goes wrong in a rocket, well, sorry, it most likely exploded.
Edit: It's like imagining if FedEx trucks explode when they get a flat tire (equipment malfunctioning) or if they went on the wrong street (going on a different trajectory).
Then stop comparing two very different industries then?
Yes, larger companies have more ressources to do it better, but the idea doesn't necessarily originate over there. Even if you know that the first gen product is most definitely going to suck ass, you still have to buy it (if you like the idea), because if you don't, there won't be a gen 2. What you're buying into, is the idea itself. If you buy into the idea, that's what the big companies will notice. They will notice the demand and that's when they'll fucking get off their asses and build a cheaper and improved copy Which is btw much easier, than creating something original. I'm not saying that everyone should support every robotic project, but I wouldn't call the supporters idiots either. Or, perhaps they are idiots, because who knows what they were expecting in the first place... But we can safely assume that it wasn't all for nothing. A larger company has noticed the demand and started moving.
Pillo is 100% secure in the same way the Titanic was "iceberg proof."
I want pillo to be a pillow that force feeds you pills while you sleep
Through his crotch, no less. Yes please, I need this for reasons.
I want Pillo to be a pillow that uploads your consciousness to Equestria.
Here's my terrible idea based on this: a full on real campaign on Kickstarter or Indiegogo that's full of zany and hilarious crap about building a futuristic robot, but instead of being an actual product, it's all a funding for a parody web series. The pitching video should be all about the robot not working as intended, messes things up and is creepy as all hell. The campaign shouldn't be about selling the product, but rather about developing it and an exclusive "documentary" (that's actually a mockumentary) following a weird team of "scientists". Kinda like The Office, but with robots.
A much simpler way of making money, honest money.
Laurentiu Badea it should be called slenderbot the robot that will always follow you
Wow, you just described "BroomShakalaka" from the show "Infomercials" on Adult Swim!
Except here it's a bunch of corporate thugs that keep trying to cover their own bullshit.
great idea. Do it!
Do it! You got my support (moral that is, not actual money or anything).
“3 powerful cpu units”
>doesn’t say what cpu is used
>only says clock speed which doesn’t mean shit if you don’t know what type it is
>cpu- central processing unit
>”3 powerful central processing units units
Hey um. The Jibo WiFi thing is true. In America we only have WiFi channels 1-11. in Japan they have access to WiFi channels 1-15. In America those Wifi channels are reserved for... Government or other 2.4ghz connections. Every country has a set of WiFi channels that they can use and one's they aren't allowed to use. A card made in America won't work in Japan because it disallows use of those channels. The cards simply can't see it, its actually illegal to use WiFi channel 12,13 in America because of the other uses of communication for them.. Which could interfere with something you might not want to mess with.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels
The 2.4ghz entry
2:48 "Buddy is an edutated m-companion". I don't think he has enough ded-dotated wam to earn that title.
Can't help noting for the record that five years later, Alpha 2 is still out and going strong.
Apart from the borderline scams, I think it's partly a problem of positioning: Right now consumer robots seem to work best as either pure tools( Amazon Echo) or robot 'pets' with some functionality added( Anki's Victor and Cosmo; Sony's Aibo). Products that don't focus on one front and center don't yet tend to justify the price for consumer markets. Five more years from now might be a different story.
The idea of having a robot home scares me.
Seriously, only recently I got over my impression that my dog is an artificial thingy that's exactly like a dog but is controlled by someone so they can spy on me, but I'm still very cautious. I always observe his behavior and if he's not acting suspiciously, trying to spy on me.
I'm even suspicious of my family. When they make food, I always check if there's any obvious signs of poison. Or when they drive me somewhere I'm scared that they'll take me somewhere to kill me.
Having a robot like this would be an absolute nightmare for me. Their looks give me an even deeper impression that there's somebody controlling them and spying on me. And what if they'd have some hidden weapons so they could kill me? Or they could drop poison in my mouth while sleeping. Even thinking about them I feel very uncomfortable and scared.
Nela Vlasáková The roombas are gonna steal all the knives
this nigga....