Agility Robotics AI lead Chris Paxton says resurfaced PR2 laundry-folding video highlights massive decadal progress in robotics
The classic footage of the PR2 robot prompted nostalgic retrospective commentary.
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The classic footage of the PR2 robot prompted nostalgic retrospective commentary.
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Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxtonTECH
The original post here is a joke - but the pr2 was 400k (10 years ago). So like 600k now, at least. The robot was slow, heavy, hard to use, and the workflows are insanely brittle and hand engineered. Today weave is selling this as a product for $8k!
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxtonTECH
