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That's faintly disappointing to me - a human can turn a sock inside out nearly instantly and without some convenient pole. The image recognition stuff about fig
by archangel_one 16y ago
That's faintly disappointing to me - a human can turn a sock inside out nearly instantly and without some convenient pole. The image recognition stuff about figuring out where to grasp it seems cleverer but it's still a little offputting to me because it all seems so contrived.
I guess I shouldn't be so down on it - there must be some pretty clever stuff in there. The image recognition problem seems harder to solve to me than the dexterity one.
I'm not sure where it becomes sexy. I guess the pole is faintly phallic, but as far as I'm concerned for a robot to be sexy it would need to look like Cameron out of Sarah Connor Chronicles. If the Berkeley researchers managed that then the future would really be here.
- electromagnetic 16y agoI'd ditto the 'I'm not sure where it becomes sexy'. I suppose putting a sock on a pole is one step away from putting a condom on a penis, but it takes roughly 5-minutes to put a loosely elasticated sock onto a pole. It would probably take the better part of a week to put a condom on a penis. So really, this wouldn't be in the least bit sexy or even sexually useful. Perhaps it'll find use treating hypersensitive premature ejaculators with a robo-fetish, but I sincerely doubt this is a step closer to the sex-bots that have been predicted forever. Someone seriously needs to seek out female companionship, even if it's just an old playboy stuffed under the corner of their mattress, if they found that in anyway sexual.