All this R&D on a drone that can open doors?
Comment on Boston Dynamics introduces a fully electric humanoid robot that “exceeds human performance”
barsoap@lemm.ee 6 months agoOperating in environments made for humans, as well as alongside humans.
Say you have a remote hydroelectric dam that needs inspecting. You might need to walk stairs, climb ladders, open doors. We’re neither going to re-build all the dams we already built, nor build new ones to be wheelchair-accessible.
bestagon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yeah, since we’ve designed our world for humans, the best general purpose robots will have a human shape in order to function effectively in the same areas.