[HN Gopher] A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics
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       A Challenge to Roboticists: My Humanoid Olympics
        
       Author : quapster
       Score  : 53 points
       Date   : 2025-11-04 13:00 UTC (9 days ago)
        
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       | analog8374 wrote:
       | What if my humanoid does cartwheels, is that too wheel?
        
       | BryanLegend wrote:
       | If he was wearing colored gloves for hand pose detection, these
       | videos would be suitable for a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model
       | training set. The robotic companies are making and labeling many
       | such videos.
        
         | drivingmenuts wrote:
         | Probably a good thing he's not doing that - it forces each
         | competitor to come up with an own method of training.
         | Otherwise, they could all just train to hi specific video (kind
         | of like how video card mfg's optimize for the tests when
         | competing against other cards).
        
       | jlv2 wrote:
       | Earlier discussion of the original
       | (https://generalrobots.substack.com/p/benjies-humanoid-olympi...)
       | article:
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       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45609922
        
       | bgwalter wrote:
       | These are still tasks that I don't mind doing myself. I want the
       | clanker to scrub the kitchen floor, paint walls and clean the
       | toilet, perfectly.
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       | But that is unlikely to happen. They'll be used for crowd control
       | (which works because they look intimidating) and surveillance.
       | Perhaps they'll also supervise humans that scrub the kitchen
       | floor. Most likely they'll fail entirely.
        
       | Fricken wrote:
       | We've got hundreds of thousands of people employed whose job is
       | to pick up a box and then set it down again somewhere else.
       | That's their whole job, they do it all day every day. Maybe we
       | can get a robot that does that. Pick up box. Set box down.
        
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