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So you sit on its head if you use it as a 'hoverboard', that's curious.

But what could be the use cases for a robot like this? Its head is too low for telepresence like Double Robotics. The arms-extension looks nice, but it can't grasp anything with it because it seems to stiff, Lego-like hands. Plus the hands can't reach up a table or kitchen to grab anything. Holding anything with weight would also shift the center of gravity and mess with the balancing.

On the other hand, mixing this robot with a thing that is useful otherwise can get the technology out the door and get sales going to add functional arms later on.



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