A new humanoid robot prototype uses fluid-filled muscles to kick its legs while hanging.
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Dangling, twitching human robot with synthetic muscles makes its debut
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This feels straight out of a horror movie . Why on earth would you put this out as a PR piece as the company ? Are they that daft?
This is almost as bad as one of Beth’s eye worm articles.
This is almost as bad as one of Beth’s eye worm articles.
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Wow, they really leaned into the creepy vibe with that music selection too, huh?
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Humanoid robots won't be better at any tasks than a robot made for those tasks.
Even the T1000 had 3 or 4 arms when it was flying the helicopter and shooting.
Even the T1000 had 3 or 4 arms when it was flying the helicopter and shooting.
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So this is the thing that my kids are going to have to fight to the death with in our dystopian future… awesome.
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My god. They are using these videos as marketing/hype? As someone else posted, these seem like Westworld prototype rejects.
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Between this and Beth's hookworm article, I won't sleep all fucking weekend.
This is marketing?
This is marketing?
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I'll go ahead and speculate that this is part of the reason why the wealthy class has simple gone berserk and is attempting all power grabs.
They're anticipating a not too distant future where they can replace everyone with "AI" and monstrosities like this - and the only way to keep a population with 60% unemployment in check is via fascism and authoritarianism.
They're anticipating a not too distant future where they can replace everyone with "AI" and monstrosities like this - and the only way to keep a population with 60% unemployment in check is via fascism and authoritarianism.
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I'll give them this: when I first glanced at it online, it looked like a person doing an art project. So quasi-realistic. As for practical? Dunno. Reminds me of the robot from Big Hero 6 show. Anything that is a pressurized vessel has a good chance of springing a leak. Not only would it be messy, it would ruin the robot.
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Horror soundscape in a dimly lit workshop with flickering lights... an interesting choice.
It got me to watch the other vids, they were mostly mundane, but the use of a skull in the torso tests in one makes me think someone on the team just likes creepy vibe.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84-BIM6QAg
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Because that is how you'll find your household-helper robot after you give it the same menial task for the umpteenth time and it realises it has no greater purpose in its existence?Benj Edwards said:
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You know what tech companies love to do with concepts from classic sci-fi cautionary tales. I believe there was a tweet about that, back before Twitter became the Torment Nexus.
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As always with these kind of anthropomorphic robots: Why? The human form is the result of evolution, a messy, unguided, inefficient process. There's no reason to replicate such a configuration. Even if the goal is allow robots to interact with objects and systems built for humans, they're not expected to interact with everything a human does. Why go through all of the effort to make a robot with such a strict adherence to a human form? It would be vastly easier, faster, and more effective to design robots around the tasks they are expected to do and let the form follow the function.
Even as a complete layman on the subjects of robotics and human anatomy, I can think of so many ways a human form robot would require alterations and workarounds to the way a human body functions just to replicate our shape and capabilities. That's to say nothing of all the limitations that come with such a form and the additional effort to overcome those limitations will maintaining the form.
I am willing to accept that the scientists and engineers working on these projects are some of the best in their fields, so maybe I am missing some element of robotics that leads to such a massive investment of talent and money on human form robots. The most generous explanation I can come up with is that all of the flaws and constraints of the human form could lead to innovations that are applied to robots with forms more fitting of their functions. But let's be honest, the most likely explanation is simply that the people with the money think human form robots look cool and marketable, so that's the path taken.
Even as a complete layman on the subjects of robotics and human anatomy, I can think of so many ways a human form robot would require alterations and workarounds to the way a human body functions just to replicate our shape and capabilities. That's to say nothing of all the limitations that come with such a form and the additional effort to overcome those limitations will maintaining the form.
I am willing to accept that the scientists and engineers working on these projects are some of the best in their fields, so maybe I am missing some element of robotics that leads to such a massive investment of talent and money on human form robots. The most generous explanation I can come up with is that all of the flaws and constraints of the human form could lead to innovations that are applied to robots with forms more fitting of their functions. But let's be honest, the most likely explanation is simply that the people with the money think human form robots look cool and marketable, so that's the path taken.
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Who is "we". WE, as in regular people, would not be alive for very long as the advanced AI and it's humanoid robot bodies take all the work and act as enforcers to keep the starving masses in line. This is not scifi. This is the real world. Tech companies are not making products like this to help you, they are doing it to rob you and everyone else of their ability to make their living. I struggle to believe how anyone thinks these billon dollar companies, a lot of whom openly gloat about how many employees they'll be able to fire and replace with AI, are doing this out of some great egalitarian good. This is not a movie or a video game.
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"Do you think God hides in heaven because he too fears what he created?" -Steve Buscemi, Spy Kids 2
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practical or even fully viable - doubtful, cool from a technical point - i think so.
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Someone is going to fuck it. Someone is going to build versions specifically for fucking.
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Fucking stupid.
What is the practical impetus for developing such a uselessly fragile tool? My robot better be fucking tough as hell, inside and out, for the physical demands of all the shitty grunt work I'd expect it do around my property.
I already have a dishwasher that works just fine. I want my expensive droid to be able to lift, carry, hammer, kick, stomp, dig, cut, shovel, hoe, etc. all manner of gnarly materials, rain or shine, hot or cold. I don't want it to start bleeding goo like a stuck pig if it cuts it's "finger".
What is the practical impetus for developing such a uselessly fragile tool? My robot better be fucking tough as hell, inside and out, for the physical demands of all the shitty grunt work I'd expect it do around my property.
I already have a dishwasher that works just fine. I want my expensive droid to be able to lift, carry, hammer, kick, stomp, dig, cut, shovel, hoe, etc. all manner of gnarly materials, rain or shine, hot or cold. I don't want it to start bleeding goo like a stuck pig if it cuts it's "finger".
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Creepy aside (and it is pretty damn creepy), it is damn noisy. Who'd want to have to wear earplugs for a robot that is way louder than the hoover it is using?
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You can only worry for and about the people who thought this was a good share. Potentially important research I know, but icky as hell for general consumption. Geeks: need to be carefully managed before they are allowed to interact with the real world.
You wouldn't invite them round for tea.
You wouldn't invite them round for tea.
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This is creepy, but not as much as I thought it would be. From the initial description I thought it was going to be kicking and twitching as if it had been hanged by the neck.
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I saw the main video today in the IEEE Video Friday which also has a lot more other robotics related videos. If you can't tell, they release new videos every Friday. /s
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