Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling
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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
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.
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Posted this the last time I saw this article, but it seems to be even more relevant for this video.
We DO have the spear of Longinus available, right? RIGHT?
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We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?
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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
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.
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Yeah, what's up with the music?
they could have gone so many different directions. nutcracker. river dance. yackety sax…
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How is it going to balance if it does not have a fake cochlea? /s
At first misread as cloaca. Barely even gave me pause in this thread.
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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
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.
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Great, soon I won't even know if someone is human in real life as well. Youre all bots.
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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.
The goal is to replicate humans, so yeah
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Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.
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...
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I see they are prepping for the live action QWOP movie.
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We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?
It's the Torment Nexus dilemma.
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System shared this topic on
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Can't wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.
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I don't like living in the future as much as young me thought I would.
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Maybe a weird aside, but what does this mean?
pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.
Are there "liters" other than the 10cm x 10cm x 10cm definition?
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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.
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.
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Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not!
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Maybe a weird aside, but what does this mean?
pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.
Are there "liters" other than the 10cm x 10cm x 10cm definition?
You mean the flow rate of a volume of liquid? What are you confused about exactly?
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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.
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.
