They really did go for the "horror movie about to go very wrong" aesthetic when they made those videos, didn't they.
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Yeah, what's up with the music?
Sounds like the creepy in-mission music in the original X:COM
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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.
I'm currently using ChatGPT to develop code that I intend to incorporate into my latest version of Roko's basilisk v0.17.13
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.
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.
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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Maybe they're attempting to make it 'learn' how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.
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.
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.
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.
Doesn’t mean they didn’t give it a dick though
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This kind of thing could actually be really beneficial for prosthetics. If we can make a robot that functions as close as possible to a human body at human size, then we can chunk it up to make prosthetics that work like your original limbs and are easy to adapt to.
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not!
Now we can have people twitching while hanging from the ceiling without having to hunt them in back alleys! Progress!
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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?
To totally confuse you: The USA uses the "standard litre" while Europe uses "normal litre":
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Volume changes based on temperature and pressure. So when we reference volume measurements like for flow rates, we typically do the math to adjust those to standard temperature and pressure. Standard pressure is 1 atm but standard temperature varies based on who you're talking to because of competing standards. It's usually 25 C or 20 C.
When we want to reference the non temperature and pressure corrected volume, we append actual to it so that people know what the measurement is. Some people don't do that and that causes confusion for others using their work if the reading is standard or actual.
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A 500-watt electric pump serves as the robot's "heart," pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.
As usual, when you read the article you stumble upon a gigantic technical hurdle. 😕
EDIT: And I'm not against the technology. I'm all for prosthetics and humanoid robots for menial work.
Just imagine the possibilities if full human-pike prosthetics are developed. Think of people who have lost their arms or legs, suddenly being able to walk again.
(And of course, applied robotics for sex bots 😉)
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Ummm…. Nobody wants this. Rosie Jetson is the ideal household helper.
I see they are prepping for the live action QWOP movie.
Someone on reddit had the idea that people working on this thing are probably recording audio logs onto individual USB-sticks, which they then leave scattered all over the facility.
That's weird they decided to publish this with creepy horror-style sounds.
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
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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“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus”
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.
I don't like living in the future as much as young me thought I would.
Bravo scientists for realizing how creepy this is and saying, let’s lean into it.
lol fml
not creepy at all... hey what's that flash disk lying on the table
"Like human"
Yes, like a very, very robotic, unnatural human.
Almost like a robot.
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Now have it stand on the ground without supports.
While it seems spooky having a whole body twitching, I do appreciate the research being done.
I think we should be excited about these things. Mainly because research like this will lead to better prosthetic limbs for those who need them. We don't need Terminators or Robomaids, but we do need more natural robotic arms and legs for those in need.
There's that bit in an episode of Red Dwarf, that may or may not have been a collective hallucinated memory of the crew, where they talk about a series of mechanoids (servant androids) that were "too human" looking and which unnerved customers.
The result of that was that they made their next series of mechanoids look like Kryten, with the low-poly heads on a similarly angular body.
Even if it was a false memory, the logic is absolutely sound. You want your 'bots to be at the other side of the uncanny valley, not at the bottom, creeping all horror-show-like up the side towards us.
Data? Is that you?
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