OpenPrediction

Affordable home-navigating robot: not before 2035

“Expensive product: NET 2030 Affordable product: NET 2035 What is easy for humans is still very, very hard for robots.”

Rodney BrooksRoboticist; co-founder of iRobot and Rethink RoboticsSaid · Source: rodneybrooks.com

Context: From Brooks's dated predictions table first published 1 Jan 2018 ("My Dated Predictions"). NET = "no earlier than" (correct if it has not happened before that year); BY = "by that year".

How we judge it

Our interpretation: correct if no affordable (mass-market consumer price) robot able to navigate almost any US home is on sale before 1 Jan 2035.

Resolution criteria are our interpretation of the claim, written before grading. Methodology

Said
Resolve by
Due in 3005 days
Verdict
Open
Stated probability
None stated
Specificity
2 of 3 (dated, some interpretation)

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