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Stanford University is the latest entrant to develop an open-source humanoid robot. Will future robots be cheap, and widely available, like open-source software today? (www.inverse.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If current trends are anything to go by, companies will have their own proprietary robots that most normal people will buy out of brand loyalty, and be tracked and controlled remotely, while a few techy people will be able to have open source robots that might be finicky to set up and might do 80% of the things proprietary ones can do, while you would have control over it and it wouldn't track you. I would be in the second camp, but most people don't even know what open source means, much less prioritise it.