Elon Musk cites first principle thinking in physics as a key to identifying neglected market opportunities. Can someone give me an example of how it may work in that application?
Recently moridinamael wrote about diswashers:
As a pampered modern person, the worst part of my life is washing dishes. (Or, rinsing dishes and loading the dish washer.) How long before I can buy a robot to automate this for me?
If you reason from first principles then there’s nothing stopping a device in which you input a pile of disher and that afterwards sorts them into the cupboard from existing.
Especially with the recent advances in machine vision and google opensourcing Tensor flow.
Another nonautomated kitchen task is cutting vegetables. There no good reason why a robot shouldn’t cut vegetables as well as humans.
You could just have a two-dishwasher system where the dishwasher takes the place of the cupboard.
It seems like a robot that automated the task of moving clean dishes into a cupboard would be an idea where the potential benefits, if any, are too small to currently justify the major development effort that would be required. Maybe in the future when AI becomes far more widespread and ‘easy’ to develop.
I think that there are people who don’t like to deal with washing dishes even through they have a dishwasher. I don’t think the task is trival in a sense that people wouldn’t be willing to invest money into a device that fixes the issue.
Apart from that a redesigned device that builds on smart sensors and nanotech filters could also operate with a lot less water.
GE’s design of a kitchen of the future with a smart sink that can automatically wash dishes is also interesting.
If I look into my kitchen the most recent invention is the microwave.
A few health conscious people I know have nanotech water filters for the water in their sink but apart from that the kitchen is mostly didn’t change.
I think that it would be possible to build something better by investing the kind of money that went into Tesla and SpaceX.
I would expect that in a decade we see a lot more sensors in the average kitchen then today.
The orbital-systems shower is a good example how nanotech plus sensors can produce a shower that performs better than the old shower.
I think my dream system would be something I can pile all the dirty dishes into which melts them down, separates out the food into something that goes into the trash (this doesn’t have to be automated) and then reconstitutes the dishes.
Recently moridinamael wrote about diswashers: As a pampered modern person, the worst part of my life is washing dishes. (Or, rinsing dishes and loading the dish washer.) How long before I can buy a robot to automate this for me?
Recently moridinamael wrote about diswashers:
As a pampered modern person, the worst part of my life is washing dishes. (Or, rinsing dishes and loading the dish washer.) How long before I can buy a robot to automate this for me?
If you reason from first principles then there’s nothing stopping a device in which you input a pile of disher and that afterwards sorts them into the cupboard from existing. Especially with the recent advances in machine vision and google opensourcing Tensor flow.
Another nonautomated kitchen task is cutting vegetables. There no good reason why a robot shouldn’t cut vegetables as well as humans.
http://www.robot-coupe.com/en-exp/catalogue/vegetable-preparation-machines,3/
You could just have a two-dishwasher system where the dishwasher takes the place of the cupboard.
It seems like a robot that automated the task of moving clean dishes into a cupboard would be an idea where the potential benefits, if any, are too small to currently justify the major development effort that would be required. Maybe in the future when AI becomes far more widespread and ‘easy’ to develop.
I think that there are people who don’t like to deal with washing dishes even through they have a dishwasher. I don’t think the task is trival in a sense that people wouldn’t be willing to invest money into a device that fixes the issue.
Apart from that a redesigned device that builds on smart sensors and nanotech filters could also operate with a lot less water.
GE’s design of a kitchen of the future with a smart sink that can automatically wash dishes is also interesting.
If I look into my kitchen the most recent invention is the microwave.
A few health conscious people I know have nanotech water filters for the water in their sink but apart from that the kitchen is mostly didn’t change.
I think that it would be possible to build something better by investing the kind of money that went into Tesla and SpaceX.
I would expect that in a decade we see a lot more sensors in the average kitchen then today.
The orbital-systems shower is a good example how nanotech plus sensors can produce a shower that performs better than the old shower.
I think my dream system would be something I can pile all the dirty dishes into which melts them down, separates out the food into something that goes into the trash (this doesn’t have to be automated) and then reconstitutes the dishes.
Something like a Star Trek transporter for tableware?
Imagine what it was like before the dishwasher.
/goes off to watch Downton Abbey :-P