The whole Boston Dynamics Atlas vid is worth watching (only 2:41) Gets up, lifts things, gait, tracks objs #hardware youtube.com/watch?v=rVlhMG
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Is it just skeuomorphism to make it the same shape as a human? Is there any particular benefit aside from freaking us all out?
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my guess is the goal is to have it perform tasks humans do so human form is optimal? Or may be a competition criteria?
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yeah, I don't what percentage are tasks humans evolved to be good at vs do anyway. Maybe can weigh in.
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I do think humanoids are useful in moving through human environments. No clue on ratio to structured environments
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Fundamentally, this comes down to engineering cost for specialized robot, versus inefficiency of humanoid ones
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. My design: humanoid search-rescue affective computing support robot
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