I think Flexile is a great concept, and there's tremendous value in simplifying things like equity & dividends. I'd like to see dividends become the norm for other companies!
Extraordinarily more difficult to get rich that way vs cashing out in the public markets. A 10x revenue multiple vs whatever share of profits your equity gets you after your nvestment terms are satisfied?
Anecdotally I have been using one of the newer versions (12.3.6) and it seems to have improved significantly, however still does "strange" things like unnecessary lane changes or slowing down unnaturally to speed limits (which no driver in LA does). Autopark works well for the most part but takes twice as long as if I were just park the vehicle myself.
Elon claims the next version (12.4 / 12.5) will be milestone improvements in terms of miles per disengagement, but only time will tell.
The mind-blowing thing is pricing - this thing starts at just $16K.
We’re going to witness an explosion of affordable humanoid robots in every home & business, and as they become increasingly capable the use cases will be nearly limitless. Think deliveries, cleaning, even childcare (Bicentennial Man, anyone?). I think what will be shocking is just how fast this happens, and they’ll likely outnumber humans at some point.
It looks like they have a direct-drive motor that can operate joints with no gears.[1] Is that right? If they use all direct drive motors, these robots are mechanically simple. No gears, no strings, no pulleys, maybe no separate bearings.
A production line for a custom motor is expensive to set up, but once production is running, each motor is cheap. An encoder is cheap if designed into the motor.
This is the route to volume production.
Machine learning has made the control problem much easier. The classic approach was to work out the dynamics analytically. (I used to struggle with that in the 1990s). That's the old Boston Dynamics approach. Now that's obsolete. BD must be using some machine learning by now. The video of Atlas doing a flip showed the planning process briefly. It was very pre-planned. They must be beyond that by now.
Too bad. It looks a lot like these real direct drive motors.[1] Those are in the same price range, and could get much cheaper if produced in quantity.
The nice thing about direct drive motor robots is that you can't strip the teeth of a magnetic field. Impact forces are not a big problem. Robot gear trains are usually the weak point.
The 8Nm/kg is impressive for the direct driver servo. It's still however a long way off from the 43.3Nm/kg gained by adding a gear box. Direct drive motors have other advantages such as better torque control and no backlash but out side of very novel motor design or making motor diameters impactical it's hard to beat the torque density of a gearbox. Maybe one day.
Watching those direct-drive robots jump and land smoothly is impressive. No problem with shock loads. They look like they're on springs, but there are no springs; it's all magnetic fields in the motor.
With good temperature monitoring and over-speced MOSFETS, those direct drive motors can probably be way overdriven for a few hundred milliseconds. That's probably the future. You don't need that extra power all that often, but sometimes you do.
>We’re going to witness an explosion of affordable humanoid robots in every home & business, and as they become increasingly capable the use cases will be nearly limitless.
For the first year, after that society will collapse as the largely now unemployed low income and middle class arm up and start pillaging for survival.
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None of this surprises me one bit. I have worked in the health space for several years, and I have personally seen the inner workings of several insurers and the manmade horrors within.
It blows my mind that these multibillion dollar institutions are so poorly managed on the technology/IT front. I think most people will have their health data likely leaked at some point.
Agreed - the language on your site is not very clear in communicating what the app is offering. Perhaps consider a video clip or screenshots, and a more clear description of features?
If you believe AGI/ASI is imminent, the demand curve for compute will far exceed supply for the foreseeable future.
(Disclaimer: I am heavily biased, as a longtime investor in Nvidia + semiconductors, since 2014+).
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