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It's clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions...
Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction...
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.
Wouldn't a quadruped be easier? You can stick arms onto a robotic "dog".
Crabs make even more sense. 6 legs makes climbing stairs even easier. 2 big arms to hold thing and manipulate doors, drawers etc.
Nature keeps making crabs, we should just cut to the chase.
You could, but it still has to interact with things at and above human height, like stuff on countertops and high shelves.
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.
See also: Cogsworth
It has to be humanoid to live among humans, using human architecture and technology.
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.
Maybe they're attempting to make it 'learn' how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.
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...
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.
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
Hmm, I have some questions to ask myself seemingly
I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It's very funny to me that it did though.
Certainly doesn't need a hyoid bone.
The goal is to replicate humans, so yeah