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All in preparation for Beijing’s World Humanoid Robot Fuck Games
For a general purpose robot meant to operate in human designed spaces, a dog sized centaur has a few big advantages over bipedalism. Four legs means more stability and much less to no energy use while standing still. It could still climb stairs and deal with complex terrain that would stymie a wheeled vehicle, but still have a small enough footprint to navigate human sized spaces.
Plus it sounds adorable. Much better than that Boston Dynamics all-servo demo where it gets up backwards like a horror movie.
The article answers its own question. When true general purpose robots become widely available, it would be best if they were able to operate in environments created by and for humans. Robots that require tens of thousands of dollars in modifications to a building are much less attractive purchases.
But do we need general purpose robots or is the dishwasher, vacuum, toilet cleaner, ect enough as special purpose tools?
Good question. You know it’ll collect all the data it can. I don’t want (another) spy in my house.
It works in sci fi so of course it will!
Because a humanoid robot can go where humans go and interact with things humans use? Duh?
Exactly. Single-purpose robots are great for factories and stuff, where they're doing basically the same task all day long and you can build your facility to support that. Humanoid forms allow robots to be more general purpose and slip into existing facilities designed for human workers.
Because we want to interact with them and anthropomorphize them.
This. People are enthralled with the idea of a human-like robot, just look at the current AI craze.
Because human beings are efficiently designed for a wide variety of general purpose tasks. Our bodies are very versatile.
Mmmmm. Versatile.... (/Homer)
Because we have some pretty gnarly traversal mechanics. A humanoid robot could theoretically traverse any kind of terrain, just as we are able to while traditional machines cannot.
There's also a point to making them look more human when they are meant to serve us. Makes them more relatable. Less creepy.
Ego.
Uh, drop-in replacement? The flexibility to do anything designed for humans to do?
No shit there's abundant tasks done by non-humanoid machines. Androids are a general solution.
This vision of humans in the home is so idealistic. What homes? Who is going to be able to afford that? Europeans can barely buy homes, many people are struggling to make ends meet, and they imagine people are going to buy a car, a smartphone, an AR headset, a house robot, subscriptions to 100s of services, and maybe tickets to space someday? There's simply not enough money in the middle and lower classes anymore to pay for this stuff.
Þis picture perfectly captures how I imagine þe Chinese Robot Olympics event was like, and I absolutely love it. I wish I could have been þere; I'd have been cheering as hard as anyone.
So funny, I'm crying.