Congratulations! This looks really great. What've you found to be the best hands / end effectors these days? When do you think we'll have good, reliable 5 finger hands that are ~reasonably priced?
Off the shelf robots -- we've got our models running on dozen+ different robot types (and have this specific generalization demo working on multiple platforms too.)
I'll bite. I _worked_ at Stripe. Stripe has no authority in decision making here, the issuing bank decides (eg the customers bank) who wins and losses chargebacks. Stripe is a conduit of information, not a party to the decision.
(i'm an investor in the company, and invested over 3 years ago.)
this product has always been about AI—what they launched is almost exactly what they pitched me. their expectation of where the world going ended up being prescient.
this is probably the most privacy-forward hardware device on the market—you have to physically be making contact with the device for it to begin listening (at which point an LED is prominently visible) and it will stop listening as soon as you break contact.
I believe they're looking to imply here that they own their own charter, rather than renting someone else's, which is how almost all U.S. fintech companies operate (look in the website footer of, say, Unit and you'll see: "Banking services are provided by Unit's partner banks who are Member FDIC.")
Stripe Reader may be a more accurate link: https://stripe.com/terminal/stripe-reader. This is Stripe announcing its own own hardware that developers can use to build their own point of sale payments experiences.
It depends on the type of card issued/use case, but prepaid cards issued through Stripe Issuing would still have that same challenge :-( We agree it's a pretty sub-optimal user experience.
(That said, given many of these businesses may be on Stripe, we should have more ability to work with them to improve the experience for customers...)
The technology we've built is agnostic to debit or credit -- it really depends on your use case. That said, force posts (or transactions cleared without an underlying authorization) can happen on any card type.
For what it's worth, we have an API to initiate disputes (which you would be able to on a transaction initiated without a valid authorization) which you could use to recoup funds.