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There are half a dozen successful commercially available surgical robot products out there. None try to mimic a surgeon's hands. Even if biomimicry turns out t
by Zigurd 2y ago
There are half a dozen successful commercially available surgical robot products out there. None try to mimic a surgeon's hands.
Even if biomimicry turns out to be a useful strategy in designing general purpose robots, I would bet against humans being the right shape to mimic. And that's assuming general purpose robots will ever be more useful than robots designed or configured for specific tasks.
- michaelt 2y agoThe reason people keep working on human-like hands for robots is: The world is absolutely full of things adapted to be operated with human hands. Handling heavy boxes? Baking a cake? Operating a circular saw? Assembling a PC? Performing surgery? Loading a ream of paper into a printer? Playing a violin? Opening a door? You can do it all with two five-fingered hands.
- ndileas 2y agoI think it's important to note that many individual humans are adapted to only a few of these tasks. A construction worker's hands and a magician have very different muscles, skin thickness, grip strength, dexterity, etc. even though they can both wash a dish and open a door.
- chrisco255 2y agoThey have the same muscles, what do you mean? They are both humans. A construction worker is likely to have stronger hands, but by no means does that preclude them from performing a magic trick nor is the magician precluded from doing carpentry. It's likely they've done more than a few construction-based tasks in their life. It's even possible that one do both, it's merely choice and time that determine these things.
- ndileas 2y agoI mean that if you measured various qualities (like grip strength, skin thickness (callouses), flexibility, eyc) that there isn't a standard human. Individual robots likely would be adapted for certain tasks too.
- constantcrying 2y ago>Handling heavy boxes? Are handled by non-humanoid Robots already. >Baking a cake? How do you think modern industrial baking works? All done by non-humanoid Roboters. >Operating a circular saw? Seriously? A circular saw is the perfect scenario where a humanoid is useless. >Performing surgery? Why are surgery Roboters not humanoid? Obviously it is easier to give robots custom tools than make human tools conform to robots. >Loading a ream of paper into a printer? Do you know how a modern printing press looks like? >Playing a violin? Google "mp3". >Opening a door? ARE YOU SERIOUS? Do you think automatic doors don't exist? It is far, far easier, cheaper, fast to make robots do a specific task than to make them do all tasks. Humans are terrible at most tasks, making robots to conform to humans is absurd.
- constantcrying 2y agoThe idea of humanoid Roboters in a factory is truly hilarious. There is a good reason for the form of industrial robots and replacing them with humanoids is ridiculous. What do you actually want to do with these humanoids.