If your disappointed by this being from 2017, check out some actual recent advancements (June 17 2025) by a different company
https://generalistai.com/blog.html
was listening to Kyle Vogt about his new bot company and he described that folding laundry is sort of a frontier problem for robotics and we are still many ways out from there. There's solution from physical intelligence and probably other companies; but they are still fairly complex and not as easily reproducible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbrt_2Fvgk
haha - yes - sometimes when you look at all the Web 2.0 and beyond startups, all of the startups seems to be at least original founded to solve problems single people think need solving:
* finding good looking people in college
* sending dm's to other people
* carpooling with strangers
* crashing on strangers couches
* getting takeout delivered
* robots/drones that fight each other
* the meta verse
* the equivalent of digital beanie babies
Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.
> Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.
Well the whole video gives a 2000 era apocalypse scenario movie vibe. Is this just OpenAI trying to fit a square peg into a round hole? Do we really need general intelligence robots at this point? This is more poc than anything but still
Now that OpenAI’s CPO has been sworn into the actual US Army, how long until they are sending the current improved versions of these things through basic training?
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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop
was listening to Kyle Vogt about his new bot company and he described that folding laundry is sort of a frontier problem for robotics and we are still many ways out from there. There's solution from physical intelligence and probably other companies; but they are still fairly complex and not as easily reproducible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXbrt_2Fvgk
Still looking for the LLM moment in robotics
Pro: can fold my laundry.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
* finding good looking people in college
* sending dm's to other people
* carpooling with strangers
* crashing on strangers couches
* getting takeout delivered
* robots/drones that fight each other
* the meta verse
* the equivalent of digital beanie babies
Meanwhile automation to help out with stuff like laundry, dishwashing, cooking home cooked meals, other household chores, helping the elderly, etc. remain untouched.
The other things were easy.
A lot has changed in robotics since then...