Terrifying
Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling
Submitted 5 weeks ago by just_another_person@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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SleafordMod@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
We really are obsessed with replicating any and all sci-fi cautionary tales, aren’t we?
OZFive@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
It’s the Torment Nexus dilemma.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m currently using ChatGPT to develop code that I intend to incorporate into my latest version of Roko’s basilisk v0.17.13
brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
It’s clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions…
the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots
Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction…
Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones
That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.
junkthief@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I don’t understand these companies’ obsession with humanoid robots. A robot doesn’t have to humanoid to be a useful household helper. It doesn’t even have to be humanoid for people to form a friendly bond with it (something I think would be a good quality in a “household helper”) just look at Star Wars droids
hansolo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Some of this is also about less complicated ways to use patents that can also be applied to things like prosthetic limbs.
Also, it provides a control case with how well-studied human anatomy is. In terms of basic mechanical motion, there’s a clear baseline goal.
I remember seeing early versions of the synthetic muscle fibers years ago, but as far as ways to practically apply them and test, and refine them as control technology improves with machine learning. 10-15 years ago, this wasn’t really possible.
catloaf@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
A humanoid robot can operate in the existing world. It can climb stairs and open a door, for example. A robot on wheels without arms can’t do that.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
if you want it to interact with a wide range of environments and objects that were designed for humans, then a humanoid robot may be the way to go.
jj4211@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
See also: Cogsworth
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It has to be humanoid to live among humans, using human architecture and technology.
Obi@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
It’s definitely made that accurate/creepy for marketing reasons, they’re probably hoping this will help them get investors. I would also assume you can simplify the human body design a good bit before losing the functionality we actually want from something like this.
Draegur@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Maybe they’re attempting to make it ‘learn’ how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.
SeaJ@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
How is it going to balance if it does not have a fake cochlea? /s
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
At first misread as cloaca. Barely even gave me pause in this thread.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
That’s all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I’m sure absolutely all of them were necessary.
Are you trying to imply they gave it a dick? If so they don’t have bones in them.
Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No, it’s pretty much only you thinking that. The rest of us were thinking about the 6 tiny bones in the ears only used for hearing or dozens of weird little bones in the wrists and ankles.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 weeks ago
I have literally no idea how that came to your mind immediately. It’s very funny to me that it did though.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Certainly doesn’t need a hyoid bone.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The goal is to replicate humans, so yeah
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This kind of thing could actually be really beneficial for prosthetics. If we can make a robot that functions as close as possible to a human body at human size, then we can chunk it up to make prosthetics that work like your original limbs and are easy to adapt to.
philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not!
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now we can have people twitching while hanging from the ceiling without having to hunt hem in back alleys! Progress!
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Think of the savings in cleaning supplies!
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
That’s weird they decided to publish this with creepy horror-style sounds.
NoXPhasma@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
There is another video, showing only the torso. It has no music, but the actual sound and this is not even less terrifying youtu.be/gl0GnzPIOl4
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
Posted this the last time I saw this article, but it seems to be even more relevant for this video.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Not much gets to me, but this shit is fucked up. I bet the people who work on these have horrible nightmares.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure I’ve seen this one in a Silent Hill game
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Maybe a weird aside, but what does this mean?
pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.
Are there “liters” other than the 10cm x 10cm x 10cm definition?
nahostdeutschland@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
To totally confuse you: The USA uses the “standard litre” while Europe uses “normal litre”:
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
Thanks, you succeeded hahaha.
From what I’m reading there this is a measure of mass flow rate of gas, expressed as volume per minute at some standard volume and pressure. Which makes some sense, you need those two parameters to be fixed so you can measure mass by volume.
And then I realized the OP article uses it for a fluid 😂
WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Volume changes based on temperature and pressure. So when we reference volume measurements like for flow rates, we typically do the math to adjust those to standard temperature and pressure. Standard pressure is 1 atm but standard temperature varies based on who you’re talking to because of competing standards. It’s usually 25 C or 20 C.
When we want to reference the non temperature and pressure corrected volume, we append actual to it so that people know what the measurement is. Some people don’t do that and that causes confusion for others using their work if the reading is standard or actual.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You mean the flow rate of a volume of liquid? What are you confused about exactly?
Yttra@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They’re asking why it’s “standard litres per minute”, instead of just “litres per minute”
Visstix@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I see they are prepping for the live action QWOP movie.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
Let’s ensure we also make them unreasonably strong and durable. We don’t want shotgun wielding humans to be able to disable one, or barricade in a house.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
“At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus”
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Bravo scientists for realizing how creepy this is and saying, let’s lean into it.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
I don’t like living in the future as much as young me thought I would.
yuki2501@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
A 500-watt electric pump serves as the robot’s “heart,” pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.
As usual, when you read the article you stumble upon a gigantic technical hurdle. 😕
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
human-pike prosthetics
Now you’re talking!
CarterH739@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What good is a housekeeping robot if it can’t break a cavalry charge?
prinzmegahertz@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Someone on reddit had the idea that people working on this thing are probably recording audio logs onto individual USB-sticks, which they then leave scattered all over the facility.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Ummm…. Nobody wants this. Rosie Jetson is the ideal household helper.
jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Can’t wait to find out it was just a guy in a suit.
DepressedMan@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Or half of man in case of torso.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
not creepy at all… hey what’s that flash disk lying on the table
hark@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Now have it stand on the ground without supports.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
“Like human”
Yes, like a very, very robotic, unnatural human.
Almost like a robot.aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
how do you know that robot is an autie??
missandry351@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
Data? Is that you?
shadowDingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
While it seems spooky having a whole body twitching, I do appreciate the research being done.
I think we should be excited about these things. Mainly because research like this will lead to better prosthetic limbs for those who need them. We don’t need Terminators or Robomaids, but we do need more natural robotic arms and legs for those in need.
systemglitch@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Great, soon I won’t even know if someone is human in real life as well. Youre all bots.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Nonsense, fellow human! I am sure you—l mean we—have nothing to fear!
shaggyb@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Leave it to humans to build a robot for the purpose of lynching it.
We don’t deserve Earth.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
You know, it was super creepy until I got to the video without a soundtrack and found out they sound like farts.
WhatSay@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Getting strong RE4 vibes
Enkers@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
They really did go for the “horror movie about to go very wrong” aesthetic when they made those videos, didn’t they.
kambusha@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, what’s up with the music?
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Sounds like the creepy in-mission music in the original X:COM
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
they could have gone so many different directions. nutcracker. river dance. yackety sax…
M137@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Seriously?
“Hey, this thing looks kinda creepy, what’s with the creepy music?”
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Are you trying to imply they gave it a dick? If so they don’t have bones in them.