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A real robot sees an unbounded containing environment in full 4d: 3 space plus time. Kitchen appliances are really 1.5 d in a bounded space they contain: time and a set of point measures like temperature. Roomba is 3d (2d plus time). Flatland robot.
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The robotics phase shift in factories is a good dividing line. Even high end CNC machines seem qualitatively different from general robotic manipulators. The philosophy of movement is more open-ended and general.
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Trying to think of something that’s obviously a robot but also obviously not anthropomorphic or biomorphic. Projection resistant. Like perseverance and ingenuity seem like a camel and a dragonfly to me. Can’t help projecting.
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It’s really weird that in the 80s robots were at the heart of sci-fi excitement but then went into a kind of recession. Boston dynamics stunts seem oddly detached from the mainstream. Disembodied cloud AIs hog all the attention.
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What sectors mostly use general-purpose robots that are adaptable to different manufacturing processes vs highly specialized equipment? I work in robotics but a pretty narrow/ unusual sector so I have no idea what the field looks like
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