Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea

I can't wait to see the day I have to listen to the ad pitch of my robot butler before it goes make me a coffee.

It is good to see someone finally working on one of these without the stupid legs

(I think the legs are stupid because they give your robot the chance to fall over and are not relevant for most environments).

LG group uses it naturally for spying from data aggregated in home appliances. The rationale is fluff.

A humanoid robot would demand continuous maintenance, especially after planned obsolescence kicks in. No robot has ever worked under dirt conditions.

Nvidia needs to keep the hype train going, by throwing darts in every possible direction.

So every 1000 physical bots are going to need the power and cooling equivalent of those super-popular datacenters they are trying to build everywhere

And I am virtually positive I know what the most popular application for them is going to become, the same way we've somehow decided to legalize gambling and drugs and make them available at a click to everyone everywhere

BTW are people going to be able to hack them to commit crimes? Protest for them?

But eventually everything is used for war to murder undesirables, we're only a decade away from the US or Israel etc. airdropping 1000 armed humanoid robots into a civilian space to hunt for "terrorists"

why not hyundai (given the existing boston dynamics ownership)?

There is no good reason to have a humanoid robot. None. Dishwashers do best in a dishwasher shape.

I have written this before, It is not AI with digital automation that worries me, generally speaking I think that is a good direction even thought we are still in early stage.

It is Humanoid, that will change everything. While we are still someway off, if we had PC - > Internet > Smartphone > AI, what is after AI will be Humanoid.

We still have another 4-5 years to go on current AI, and then Humanoid will further carry AI forward. This is similar to how Smartphone made the whole internet population 5 - 10 times bigger, further increasing demand on internet infrastructure. If anything, Apple should work on this. Perhaps the only thing that will be bigger than iPhone.