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Humanoids are the Turing machines of physics. They're Mediocre at everything, and worse than a dedicated machine at almost every task, just like a CPU is worse
by miki123211 2mo ago
Humanoids are the Turing machines of physics.
They're Mediocre at everything, and worse than a dedicated machine at almost every task, just like a CPU is worse than an ASIC. However, they adapt to new tasks quickly. This decreases ownership costs (you only need one humanoid, not one machine per task), as well as manufacturing costs, as you can make one design and spend a lot of R&D money on scaling that design.
- anon-3988 2mo agoThere's no reason why an ideal body needs to have such a high center of gravity though? Clearly we are wasting a lot of energy and capacity to maintain that balance. I am pretty the ideal body is actually a spider.
- pineaux 2mo agoActually bipedal systems are very energy efficient when walking and moving and very slightly inefficient when standing still.
- wongarsu 2mo agoSpiders can't reach as high. Unless you make them really big, but then they take up a lot of space Humans are very space efficient
- Joker_vD 2mo agoSomething vaguely centauroid is probably would be the most middle of the road design: easy to maintain steady balance with 4 legs without taking too much of the floor space, the central column on top of it can go quite high up and easily have up to 4 hand-like manipulators attached to it with wide range of motion.
- anon-3988 2mo agoThe mechanical spider can simply extend its torso or body up. You are only bounded by your imagination!
- HappMacDonald 2mo agoCrab has entered the chat. For.. for like the eighteenth time now.