Does people really care about robots?
Maybe doing shores by hand is much cheaper. But yeah, cleaning bathrooms is not ideal.
What’s the cheapest home care bot?
It seems to doesn't exist yet. Even roomba is too expensive (let's say, for most Brazilian houses).
Can we print it in 3D?
It seems possible, extremely noisy and probably slow for legged humanoid. However it seems possible for wheeled bots.
Do we need human-like robots or shores-targeting robots?
I don't see why we couldn't move the ML models and sw stack from one hw design to another: starting with wheeled robots that have dog-like views of the environment to person-like views with some actuators
The idea is to 3D print all parts and start by using existing robot platforms that can be scrapped out for electronics. The software stack should run in a remote station in the house. The SoC+sw should be modular: one should be able to get the module trained on V0 and move to V1.
Stretch is a good target IMHO:
Great directories here:
Important to note that most of those robots will be rented by companies, so we’ll be more interested in cost/hour instead of actual full cost to acquire. It seems the target is around $3-5/hour…