Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling

[bogasse@lemmy.ml]

That's weird they decided to publish this with creepy horror-style sounds.

[enkers@sh.itjust.works]

They really did go for the "horror movie about to go very wrong" aesthetic when they made those videos, didn't they.

[brsrklf@jlai.lu]

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.

[kambusha@sh.itjust.works]

Yeah, what's up with the music?

[seaj@lemm.ee]

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

[obi@sopuli.xyz]

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.

[noforwardslashs@sopuli.xyz]

Sounds like the creepy in-mission music in the original X:COM

[draegur@lemm.ee]

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

[grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works]

Bravo scientists for realizing how creepy this is and saying, let’s lean into it.

[noxphasma@lemmy.world]

There is another video, showing only the torso. It has no music, but the actual sound and this is not even less terrifying https://youtu.be/gl0GnzPIOl4

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[junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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

[bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de]

Posted this the last time I saw this article, but it seems to be even more relevant for this video.

[thefriar@lemm.ee]

Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.

[mnbychoice@midwest.social]

Let's ensure we also make household robots unreasonably strong and durable. We don't want shotgun wielding humans to be able to disable one, or barricade in a house.

[hansolo@lemm.ee]

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.

[reverendender@sh.itjust.works]

We DO have the spear of Longinus available, right? RIGHT?

[kibiz0r@midwest.social]

We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?

[catloaf@lemm.ee]

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@lemmy.world]

they could have gone so many different directions. nutcracker. river dance. yackety sax…