
Bobby
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I'm also of the camp that specialized robots >>>> humanoid/general purpose robots (for now).
"Nariyawala has no interest in moving toward more complicated robots, such as the humanoid ones Elon Musk hopes Tesla will sell. “We’ve never wanted to make Rosie the Robot,” he said. Nariyawala likened efforts to produce humanoids to the trajectory of General Magic, a startup that developed an unsuccessful precursor to smartphones in the 1990s: He thinks current humanoids will seem too limited in function to justify their high prices, which will severely limit their potential market."
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Forget Humanoids: Silicon Valley Is Going Nuts Over a Pixar-Like Robot
Until recently, Mehul Nariyawala had a surefire way to kill a conversation at a Silicon Valley cocktail hour. All he had to do was tell someone what product his startup, Matic, hoped to sell: a robot that’s part vacuum, part mop. “What they would almost always then ask is, ‘That’s not the only ...
