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I agree with you, and I think the other replies are missing your point. With all the techno-marvels around us, it's a shame that lightweight, reliable robotics
by ericbarrett 4y ago
I agree with you, and I think the other replies are missing your point. With all the techno-marvels around us, it's a shame that lightweight, reliable robotics that can do something as superficially simple as brush some panels don't exist. Just goes to show how hard the field is, I guess.
- logicallee 4y agoYeah, they really don't get what I meant which is probably my failure to communicate. It's like me saying "It's a shame I can't save myself a few minutes every day by having a robot make my sandwiches for me, since there is no such thing as a cheap household robot that can easily make a sandwich from its ingredients put before it" and them saying, "nono there totally are they just cost too much so it doesn't make sense and you don't understand anything about the intrinsic difficulty of sandwich assembly in a zero-person environment". Okay fine but end result is I'm still making my own sandwich in 2022 :) End result is this mars rover can't do $2 worth of human work because it can't brush itself off, it is easier to add larger solar panels than brush them off since there's no such thing as a cheap lightweight easy reliable robot arm.