What this means: No force feedback on positioning. Jerky motion due to actuator steps. Limited precision. Terrible slow motion control performance. Fast movements will look better. Inability to solve problems with software.

Basically think of all the joints like those cheap thermal camera screens that are at 320 x 240 resolution. For rough work or finding some sort of oddity your good, but anything precise you need to spend real money. It's a pretty cool toy, but don't go buying this expecting that much.

Can you be up front about its real capabilities. Are these videos of it eg tidying up real or just staged / cherry picked?

If you let it loose in a messy room or stirring something in a kitchen, what are the genuine results you would expect in the wild?

We’re all used to seeing things like Atlas back flipping but then can’t do anything in a real environment. Just curious how this fits in and what the success / fail rate is.

I'd want to bolt it with a mount to the wall when not in use because it needs to be climb-resistant for children during the daytime when I don't need it functional but there is a solid 8 hour 2200->0700 window when no one will be in the living room and speed is not an issue.

I was talking to my wife about this device and actually the wheeled form factor and (probably) no control software for balance is a feature for our use-case because when the Unitree G1 or whatever falls over the result is catastrophic. The balance control software attempts pure insanity and will likely kill a child nearby.

2. Is the app distributed as an APK outside of the Play Store? Does it have any hard requirements on GMS that would prevent users of degoogled devices from using it?

3. Is every function available through the app possible to perform or recreate with the open SDK? Is this robot (now, and in the future) going to be accessible to technically competent folks who don't own a smartphone at all?

4. Is there a privacy policy on your website for the robot itself? Is there any telemetry? What kind? Will it be recording me without me asking it to? Is the software that ships on it totally open source?

Cool project! I might be quite interested, depending on how much it respects user freedoms and privacy.

My preference would be ifixit level guides where you can easily replace parts yourself. Then it would be perfect if the same servo is used everywhere so I can have 3 or 4 stored somewhere.

I don't mean to be negative, but making a sustainable business on a hardware race to the bottom sounds challenging.

I'd be curious to to know from others here, what in-home tasks do people think they'll really be able to automate with any of the various bimanual or humanoid robot platforms that seem to be going around?

I could see myself printing all sorts of costumes for it and using it as an ad hoc characters for tabletop games or as a spare bandmate if I ever finish my synth.

"We make money by selling the hardware for $1,688, with optional paid software on top."

The software would have to be quite good and also affordable for me to consider it, as all subscriptions are liabilities. I might one day want my robot to go with me to a show or to do something meaningful. Whenever that happens I will NOT be held hostage by software and will either source my own software or replace parts of the hardware till something works before I keep throwing money at a bad service. I would prefer to just have a good vendor supported software that I don't have to think about but I have trust issues. Privacy would be a huge concern, I can't have this in my garage lab with all my stuff being sent back to your servers for computer vision tasks etc.

Robot race for the upcoming years is going to be wild, being able to do core tasks with just a raspberry sounds great. Hope you can evolve and improve this over the coming years.

- nori.ai (ai health coach)

- heynori.com (ai family hub)

- nori inc (soil based carbon sequestration)

- noriagentic.com (that's us, ai cloud infrastructure)

and my personal favorite

- nori.co (makers of 'The Nori Cloud' a clothes steamer, as seen on Oprah's Favorite Things)

Our open SDK includes teleoperation and demonstration tools

How is teleoperation anything more than a glorified puppet master pulling the strings or a radio controlled toy car?

- Cook food

- Clean up

- Bring me stuff from the fridge

- Load a dishwasher

- Fold clothes

So I guess my main question is: What do you hope to accomplish by shamelessly lying? I mean, beyond the lack of shame, you're selling a product here, so are you not at least afraid of the lawsuits? You do know that false advertising is a crime, right?

Or I suppose you're just very optimistic and naive and think that programming it to pick up one pre-placed item and do some specifically programmed action with it is the same as "brings arbitrary stuff from the fridge to an arbitrary person anywhere in the house"?

Also, people these days are more attuned to the whole "trust" thing. By lying upfront you've just killed your company forever for me and others like me. You could have been upfront about the limitations of your product, but no, you had to say it folds clothes, lol. You're now going to be a scam in the mind of me and surely many others, forever.

Either way, you're in for a rough time.

I can see me doing so many things with this.

Could it put small to medium sized packages in a package room of a condo?

Hopefully upto 24" in any dimension and 5-10 lbs(and ignore the others it can't handle)?

The set up of the small room: three stacked total height 5' rack shelves on both sides and a 2' wide passage in the middle.

Not saying off the shelf but how hard would it be to teach it how to do that?

Not sure who the market is here apart from SF tech bros with money to burn.