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Always important to remember that a lot of these robots are “faking” the humanlike motions – its a property of how they’re trained not an inherent property of the hardware. They’re actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.
Always important to remember that a lot of these robots are “faking” the humanlike motions – its a property of how they’re trained not an inherent property of the hardware. They’re actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.
I think the human body is the way it is for a reason. It’s good at a lot of different tasks, so if you want to make a robot that can be used for a lot of different tasks (especially in a world where a lot of shit is designed around the human body) an anthropomorphic robot seems like a good idea. Like sure, a billion different hyper-specialized robot designs would be better, but are they enough better to justify the extra design time over just using the human shape we already know works?
Booty, buddy, if you had my body idk if you’d be saying the human body works
We’ve built the world so humans can do things, for obvious reasons, doesn’t really mean that’s particularly efficient. You’re much better off investing the money into changing the built world so a few specialized robots can do it at like 3000x the efficiency.
The fancy thing about those humanoid things is they can walk / balance. Which is impressive, but where do you need this? I can come up with: SAR and Disaster Relief and that would be sick as fuck, but even for latter pretty sure something like a spiderbot would fare better (jurys out on the psychological issues around being rescued by the spiderbot).
4 legs is better than 2.
8 legs is better than 4
really? 6 gets you dual tripod gaits, which is simpler to always be stable assuming no climbing. What does 8 get you?
Fear.
That’s not very helpful
I feel like a humanoid shape is overall inferior to a monkey (monkeyoid?) shape because a monkey robot is just a humanoid plus a tail. And the tail can not only be used to grab things, so functioning like a fifth limb, but also be used for balance. You could even put visual sensors on the tail so it functions like a third eye that is capable of 360 vision since the monkey-bot can just spin the tail.
Robot Goku