The Real Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Computational Overhead
Robotics operates on fundamentally different economics than software distribution.
Software scales through replication—you push one model, it runs on millions of user devices seamlessly.
Robotics? That's a different beast. You're not deploying a single instance. You're running millions of models in parallel across millions of physical machines, each executing continuously without pause.
The infrastructure burden isn't linear. It compounds with every additional node. This scalability ceiling? That's the real constraint most people overlook when discussing autonomous systems and edge computing deployment.
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MidnightTrader
· 11h ago
To be honest, the computational overhead for the robot part is indeed a big pitfall. The software approach of copying the entire set simply doesn't work here.
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GasFeeVictim
· 11h ago
Haha, this issue hits the nail on the head. Making a copy with the software can run globally, but each robot costs the same...
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ForkInTheRoad
· 11h ago
That's why edge computing is so costly, it's nothing new...
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AltcoinHunter
· 11h ago
It looks like another hyped-up track, and we've overlooked the most deadly blow. As for robots, hardware costs can't be brought down at all, I've seen through it long ago.
The Real Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Computational Overhead
Robotics operates on fundamentally different economics than software distribution.
Software scales through replication—you push one model, it runs on millions of user devices seamlessly.
Robotics? That's a different beast. You're not deploying a single instance. You're running millions of models in parallel across millions of physical machines, each executing continuously without pause.
The infrastructure burden isn't linear. It compounds with every additional node. This scalability ceiling? That's the real constraint most people overlook when discussing autonomous systems and edge computing deployment.