Bipeds most efficiently move around a human-scale home.
Only those build from same parts as humans.
And I can’t take seriously anyone who claims the human hand is an “irrational design.”
They are pretty rational. if made from bones, muscles, sinews and all that stuff. But when you have motors, gears and bearings, or pneumatics and hoses they become a blunder.
And he’ll use his rocket motors to climb stairs, right?
He will use some of tentacles for that.
To keep human-like robot balanced climbing on stairs, you will have to spend enormous amount of energy, constantly doing heavy calculations and powering dozens of motors simultaneously just to keep this heavy mechanism in balance on two legs, and only that tast will eat noticeably more energy than needed for lifting weight to the height of stairs. If robot have to carry something, things get even worse.
With several pneumatic/hydraulic tentacles you need to operate only few valves (inside main body) and do a simple math to keep robot always standing on 3 tentacles. Great power efficiency, because you spend pump power only for lifting a weight up, no need for any balancing losses and so on. Load could be carried on another 3 tentacles rised above top dome without any need for balance.
That's pretty common mistake, when somebody pay more attention to some not important things, like exterior, forgetting to think about what have to be really done to make this exterior working.
When you start from what you have, you get much better results, despite exterior is not coincide with somebody dreams.
I think this obsession with humanoid robots, comes from the dirty dream of ignorant humanitarians to feel themselves gods, creating devices by their likeness and rule above them. And they just forgot or too arrogant to find out what "likeness" real God actually meant.
Bipeds most efficiently move around a human-scale home. And I can’t take seriously anyone who claims the human hand is an “irrational design.”
So “replace humanity itself” then, huh? Because nature and physics didn’t create us?
And he’ll use his rocket motors to climb stairs, right?
Only those build from same parts as humans.
They are pretty rational. if made from bones, muscles, sinews and all that stuff. But when you have motors, gears and bearings, or pneumatics and hoses they become a blunder.
He will use some of tentacles for that.
To keep human-like robot balanced climbing on stairs, you will have to spend enormous amount of energy, constantly doing heavy calculations and powering dozens of motors simultaneously just to keep this heavy mechanism in balance on two legs, and only that tast will eat noticeably more energy than needed for lifting weight to the height of stairs. If robot have to carry something, things get even worse.
With several pneumatic/hydraulic tentacles you need to operate only few valves (inside main body) and do a simple math to keep robot always standing on 3 tentacles. Great power efficiency, because you spend pump power only for lifting a weight up, no need for any balancing losses and so on. Load could be carried on another 3 tentacles rised above top dome without any need for balance.
That's pretty common mistake, when somebody pay more attention to some not important things, like exterior, forgetting to think about what have to be really done to make this exterior working.
When you start from what you have, you get much better results, despite exterior is not coincide with somebody dreams.
I think this obsession with humanoid robots, comes from the dirty dream of ignorant humanitarians to feel themselves gods, creating devices by their likeness and rule above them. And they just forgot or too arrogant to find out what "likeness" real God actually meant.
I now support tentacular aberration robot maids.