The battery and hardware were the bottle neck much like processing power for machine learning. George is trying to a fun opensource project but not be toy and that's very important.
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.
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.
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.
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> 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/
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