[HN Gopher] Comma Body: The Future of People
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       Comma Body: The Future of People
        
       Author : rvrst
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-05-04 18:08 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.commabody.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.commabody.com)
        
       | foobarian wrote:
       | We tried out one of these telepresence bots in our (open-plan)
       | office. It quickly became universally hated and soon kicked out
       | because its speaker somehow had a completely distorted spectrum,
       | with shrill, emphasized high frequencies additionally full of
       | low-bit-rate artifacts that carried across the whole floor.
        
         | abriosi wrote:
         | This is different from a telepresence bot. In fact, it is
         | necessary to have been following comma.ai for sometime to
         | understand what it is.
         | 
         | Awesome
        
           | germinalphrase wrote:
           | Ah, great. So... what is it?
        
             | abriosi wrote:
             | It is an open source robot with a highly capable, custom
             | and transparent computer as a controller at a fair price
             | 
             | It can be whatever your imagination allows it
             | 
             | An immediate application I can think of is that it can be
             | used in college for the robotics course
        
               | zydex wrote:
               | $3000 is a fair price? To me it seems excessive but maybe
               | I am missing something.
        
             | jpm_sd wrote:
             | Apparently it's an... indoor self-driving car? For software
             | testing??
             | 
             | > The comma body runs our open source software, openpilot.
             | From openpilot's perspective, the comma body is a car. It
             | runs the same camera and logging software, so we'll be able
             | to learn from the fleet of bodies in the same way we learn
             | from our fleet of cars.
             | 
             | https://blog.comma.ai/commabody/
        
               | germinalphrase wrote:
               | Ah. I can see why a cheap to log and test self-driving
               | could be desirable.
        
       | babyshake wrote:
       | I've seen telepresence products for over a decade. Has the trend
       | ever really taken off?
        
         | jpm_sd wrote:
         | No, it's still very niche. Suitable, Double, Ohmni, Anybots,
         | GoBe, etc. have failed to take the world by storm.
        
       | stride wrote:
       | I'd like to see a project like this that adapted comma.ai into a
       | wearable vest for blind people. It would signal through haptic
       | vibration to help avoid walking into obstacles.
        
         | orena wrote:
         | Have you seen orcam projects ?
        
       | balanced10 wrote:
       | interesting
        
       | DebboR wrote:
       | looks cool!
        
       | humanistbot wrote:
       | I sincerely hope that telepresence robots are not the future of
       | people. What a ridiculous slogan.
        
       | [deleted]
        
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