Biblically accurate robot?
this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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It doesn't seem useful for much, as is, beyond exploring. But, it's good to see innovation beyond humanoid shaped robots.
This is better understood with a video:
It's kinda cute.
Maybe this is what the roman dodecahedrons were after.
This would've fucked me up as a kid. 🤣 I was scared of those expanding ball toys:
i dont like it
Ah yes, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.
Seems great to explore the shallow ocean or potentially lakes, especially if you can add different kinds of cameras
Well, if you can waterproof it. Might be quite challenging. 😅
Looks like a lot of redundancy. Or in other words, the design seems wasteful.
Maybe it's good for something, and it's cool to try radically different concepts. Who knows, maybe they learn something from it that is actually useful.
Redundancy can be good
You could argue that the cost of cameras and actuators is not a limiting factor. I find it interesting
Wouldn't like an eight-legged crawling bot with a 360 degree camera be able to do the same and faster? Seems like there's a lot of time spend in air where he can't control himself that well.
It just needs to collect flower pots, then some lawn chairs, and then lampposts to achieve its final* katamari form
Kill it with fire.
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Kind of confusing to me. Because personally I have thought the concept of imitating dogs and humans walking, is a potential weak point in robot design. But this? I fail to see it's practicality. It seems, better at, going directly left when it was going forward? The fact that the whole design rolls to move makes it fairly, impractical for any tasks involving moving things or using anything. It can travel on sand, though I'd imagine stairs or even too high of a hill would be implausible.
It's for research. This is exactly the kind of stuff we need to get away from the humanoid robot craze
kinda funny because I feel like you could do that with four limbs that are positioned like the carbon atom equidistant apart. Should be able to lower the top limb between two and raise the one that is now opposite and if the weight is enough it should tumble over.
Maybe at nanobot scales this would be awesome for delivering cures and stabbing viruses. The distributed sensors could be working together but also each one specialise in spotting certain virus traits. It can actuate legs, grabbers or stabbers with the same mechanisms for simplicity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcmwC0ur90 I can imagine a nanobot like the OP making its way around this world
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it's like a metaphor of some kind