Mike Adams exposes the deception behind pre-selling home robots at $600 monthly, revealing they are merely teleoperated by humans in India or Pakistan via VR goggles rather than autonomous. He argues that unlike Tesla's billions of miles of driving data, indoor navigation fails against unpredictable variables like pets, cords, and clutter, risking injury to babies or destruction of furniture. Consequently, true autonomy remains impossible soon, with robots destined for institutions or outdoor tasks before ever safely mastering the chaotic environment of a private home. [Automatically generated summary]
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The Promise of Home Robots00:03:11
Robotics will advance much more slowly than you have been told when it comes to personal robots in your home.
Now, I'm aware there's a company that has been pre selling robots or the promise of a robot in your home.
And you're supposed to be able to spend something like $600 a month to lease one of their robots that they say is coming out this year.
And they've done a couple of demos.
And for the most part, The robot just stands around and maybe walks around unless it is teleoperated, which means there's a dude in India or Pakistan or somewhere with a pair of VR goggles that is controlling the robot through his or her own perception.
So, teleoperated robots is not what people had in mind when they were being sold the promise of, hey, you can buy a robot and it'll walk around your house and clean your house and do all your chores, which is pretty much what's been promised.
Like, We're told, you know, these robots will do your dishes, they'll fold your laundry, they'll clean up and everything while you're away.
And then when you come home, your house is all clean.
And it's implied that this is autonomous.
Not that there's some dude in India controlling the robot walking around your house in a creepy way while you're at work and, you know, rearranging your underwear or whatever.
That's just weird.
So when people find out that these robots actually don't function autonomously, In terms of doing very much at all, then there's going to be a wake up call.
A lot of people are going to say, wait a second.
I thought I was paying for a robot that was autonomous.
That's what is assumed by the word robot.
It's not a remote control humanoid.
See, if it was going to be sold as a remote control humanoid, they would just call it RC humanoid, like a remote control car or a remote control drone.
That's totally different from an autonomous humanoid.
Which we would call a robot.
The term robot implies that it is autonomous.
But you might wonder why.
Why is it so difficult for robotics to navigate someone's home?
I mean, we see robots in factories.
Yes, because factories are predictable, factories have flat floors.
Factories don't normally have a lot of clutter all over the place.
Factories don't have weird hallways and weird stairs and curved stairs and slopes and then.
Surfaces that vary, carpet here and tile there, and slick tile over there, wood floors, tile in the bathroom, and then thresholds between the bathroom and the hallway, etc. etc.
Houses have all those things, plus dogs and cats and babies crawling around.
So when you start to talk about autonomous robots going into homes, the first thing you have to think about is will it step on the baby or will it crush the cat accidentally?
Oops, I'm sorry, you're correct.
Avoiding the Crush Cat Scenario00:07:18
It was wrong for me to crush your cat and throw it down the stairs thinking it was a throw rug.
Yeah, you know, answering like an LLM.
But these are the kinds of situations that these robots are going to face in your home.
How do you do the dishes without breaking the dishes?
Right?
How do you walk around without breaking things, you know, tripping over the table with the expensive lamp on it or what have you?
How do you achieve all these things?
You only achieve it through training.
And Today's robots, the training is not learned in a way that is generalized well.
So, robotic training, which, you know, it's a different version of training compared to language model training, but it follows some of the same principles.
You have behavior models instead of language models.
But even in language models, the LLM needs many, many examples of how a word is used in context or a phrase or, you know, a sentence that comes before it or after it.
In fact, it has to have millions of examples.
To be able to use a word correctly.
Well, in the world of 3D space, how do you get millions of training runs in people's homes?
You would have to algorithmically generate in a digital space millions of people's random homes.
And it's not enough to just take floor plans, because you could find that easily enough.
You could just do all kinds of generative creations of blueprints or whatever.
You could have floor plans.
That's not the issue.
The issue is what people put in their homes.
And the risks that are associated with the things that people put in their homes.
Like, oh, here's a vacuum cleaner that's plugged in and the cord is draped across this area, and the robot fails to see the cord and tries to walk forward and it gets tripped and it falls, does a face plant onto a coffee table while it's carrying something valuable.
And then the coffee table is smashed, and underneath the coffee table was the cat.
So now you have a broken robot, you have a broken coffee table, and you have an injured cat.
Because it didn't see the cord and things like that.
These situations, you can't train for every one of these things.
It's impossible.
Too many variations because it involves humans and the things that they put on their own floors or homes or around the living room, all kinds of things like that.
That's why I say robots will first work in institutions or corporations, hospitals, for example.
You can get around, the floors are flat.
You pretty much see the same objects all the time.
Oh, there's a bed, there's a cart, there's a door, whatever.
You can get away with this on a factory floor.
You see the same things over and over again on the factory floor.
There's a car, there's another robot, and another robot, and there's a box, and there's a parts bin, things like that.
In a person's home, it's totally random.
Oh, there's a broken bottle of Jack Daniels or whatever.
You're never going to be able to figure that out.
I mean, not, I should say, not anytime soon.
And think about a robot as an autonomous vehicle with legs, makes it much more complex than an autonomous vehicle on the road.
Now, Tesla has the best full self driving feature set currently in the world, with the vehicles having driven billions of miles, actually.
So they have billions of miles of training data, plus a lot of synthetic data on top of that.
Even then, it's hard for a car to fall over.
Because it has wheels.
It's also not likely that you're going to have an extension cord draped across the road.
You do have animals, you do have deer or foxes or whatever's crossing the road.
Yeah, you have that.
And they've had to build in object detection or pedestrians or children on bikes or whatever, motorcycles.
They've had to build all that in.
But even then, it's a short list, really.
There's not actually that many things that will typically.
Run out into the middle of a road.
It's either a child, it's a bicycle, it's an animal, maybe a piece of trash, maybe another vehicle, a basketball or something.
But it's not an unlimited list.
In a house, it's an unlimited list because you don't know.
People stacked up phone books from 1972.
They got a stack of magazines over here that's about to tip over.
And then they're lighting candles on fire in this other corner for some reason.
And the carpet's all jacked up and there's a wrinkle in it, and the throw rug doesn't work correctly, and the robot trips over the rug.
See, that would never happen in a warehouse.
So, the bottom line is we're all being oversold about robots in the home.
I would be much more comfortable about robots outside the home where they can do a lot less damage.
That's why I've said I want a weed pulling robot.
I wouldn't mind a robot that picks up trash around a farm or something, or a robot that can move dirt, that can work a shovel.
You know, a robot that can pick cucumbers or something like that.
A robot that can do something useful outside to me seems a lot less risky than a robot indoors.
And it's much easier to navigate outside, even with the uneven ground.
At least you can recognize that that's a sidewalk, those are stairs, that's grass, that's dirt, whatever.
Probably not all kinds of weird, random, slippery objects and marbles and stuff all over the hallway, you know, outside.
I'm saying so.
Outside robots first.
Well, I should say.
Corporate robots, manufacturing robots, you'll have them stocking shelves at grocery stores and cleaning rooms and hospitals and things like that.
And then for residential use, it will be outdoors robots, autonomous robots that do chores.
And then last will be robots that are competent indoors in private homes that can navigate that obstacle course because it's a crazy one.
It's a crazy one.
Don't step on the poodle either.
By the way, and if you do step on the poodle, then what happens?
You know, what happens when the poodle attacks the robot?
I'm being eaten by a poodle, you know, it's like ripping his legs off, you know, doing the full C3PO.
You come home, your poodle's panting over a pile of parts like a good poodle, I think, and you got him, but that was an eighty thousand dollar robot, so that's going to be interesting as well.
Like, my dog would rip a robot apart.
We're going to test that, by the way, one of these days here.
When Poodles Attack Robots00:00:42
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