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Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months 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.