Terrifying

  • @[email protected]
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    3724 hours ago

    It’s clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions…

    the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots

    Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction…

    Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones

    That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.

    • @[email protected]
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      3322 hours ago

      I don’t understand these companies’ obsession with humanoid robots. A robot doesn’t have to humanoid to be a useful household helper. It doesn’t even have to be humanoid for people to form a friendly bond with it (something I think would be a good quality in a “household helper”) just look at Star Wars droids

      • @jj4211
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        313 hours ago

        See also: Cogsworth

      • @[email protected]
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        2122 hours ago

        Some of this is also about less complicated ways to use patents that can also be applied to things like prosthetic limbs.

        Also, it provides a control case with how well-studied human anatomy is. In terms of basic mechanical motion, there’s a clear baseline goal.

        I remember seeing early versions of the synthetic muscle fibers years ago, but as far as ways to practically apply them and test, and refine them as control technology improves with machine learning. 10-15 years ago, this wasn’t really possible.

      • @[email protected]
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        1221 hours ago

        A humanoid robot can operate in the existing world. It can climb stairs and open a door, for example. A robot on wheels without arms can’t do that.

      • @acosmichippo
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        521 hours ago

        if you want it to interact with a wide range of environments and objects that were designed for humans, then a humanoid robot may be the way to go.

    • @[email protected]
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      519 hours ago

      That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.

      Are you trying to imply they gave it a dick? If so they don’t have bones in them.

      • @Cornelius_Wangenheim
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        1618 hours ago

        No, it’s pretty much only you thinking that. The rest of us were thinking about the 6 tiny bones in the ears only used for hearing or dozens of weird little bones in the wrists and ankles.

        • @[email protected]
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          617 hours ago

          Exactly, ear in particular was what I thought about. There are very tiny bones in there. I’m pretty sure they didn’t replicate a functional human ear, so those have no impact on anything.

          Many bones in the hand and foot are also locked in place together, so modeling each one seems, well, I don’t think it’s a waste of time, but at this point you’re making an art performance.

      • @[email protected]
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        217 hours ago

        I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It’s very funny to me that it did though.

    • Cyrus Draegur
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      923 hours ago

      Maybe they’re attempting to make it ‘learn’ how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.

        • Cyrus Draegur
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          121 hours ago

          the only thing I’m hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that…

    • @[email protected]
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      923 hours ago

      It’s definitely made that accurate/creepy for marketing reasons, they’re probably hoping this will help them get investors. I would also assume you can simplify the human body design a good bit before losing the functionality we actually want from something like this.

    • SeaJ
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      623 hours ago

      How is it going to balance if it does not have a fake cochlea? /s

    • @systemglitch
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      221 hours ago

      The goal is to replicate humans, so yeah