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”If robots can eventually respond to their environments with the same level of dexterity as the average adult human, the range of potential applications will be
by stakkur 5y ago
”If robots can eventually respond to their environments with the same level of dexterity as the average adult human, the range of potential applications will be practically limitless. ‘Humanoids are interesting from a couple perspectives,’ Kuindersma says. “First, they capture our vision of a go-anywhere, do-anything robot of the future. They may not be the best design for any particular task, but if you wanted to build one platform that could perform a wide variety of physical tasks, we already know that a human form factor is capable of doing that.”
No, they’re not “humanoids”, and it’s chilling to hear them call it that.
But more simply than that: this will be used for war and human surveillance and response. It is already underway.
TL;DR: Why?
- rglover 5y agoBecause. Why allow "useless eaters" to roam the planet, dealing with them coughing on your parfait when you can have one of these sanitary machines do it? And of course, when we tell the parfait makers that they're out of a job, they'll freak...now we have the perfect, emotionless authority to keep them in line. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU&t=14s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU&t=14s
- tempestn 5y agoWebster uses humanoid robots as an example usage of 'humanoid'. The word just means it has a human-like shape, ie. two arms and two legs connected to a torso. Definition of humanoid (Entry 1 of 2) : having human form or characteristics // humanoid dentition // humanoid robots https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humanoid https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/humanoid