r/BeAmazed • u/Place_Sufficient • Oct 23 '24

Science real Android powered by artificial muscles

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u/Super5Nine Oct 24 '24

Why do we imagine robots looking like us with eyes. If we could build a killer robot wouldn't we want it to have 360 vision? Maybe a second set of arms that could operate in the back? It would be far superior to the human form

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u/keyinfleunce Oct 24 '24

Because we crave to connect with everything around us

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u/lemons_of_doubt Oct 24 '24

People stick googly eyes on Roombas, it doesn't matter how the robot sees it's going to have a par of eyes on the "front"

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u/Vindepomarus Oct 24 '24

I don't think this one is designed to be a weapon.

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u/LimestoneDust Oct 24 '24

Those terminators are used for infiltration missions besides the field combat, so they have a practical reason to be humanoid. There are other models which look nothing like humans (a tank, a flying vehicle etc), so I'd say their variety is quite logical 

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u/Lightice1 Oct 25 '24

A perfect robot form would consist of nothing but a fractal of manipulators extending from larger manipulators, each "hand" containing its sensory organs. But that sort of form would look very disturbing to a human observer and would move in a way that would not suit very well in environments designed for humans.

A robot designed for combat or space exploration has no need to resemble humans, but a service robot designed to operate in human structures and use human vehicles, as well as appear sympathetic to a human eye pretty much needs to have a human shape.

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u/Alternative-Raise-32 Oct 24 '24

Sincerely i would do something like that if i had the money and knowledge.

But the most interesting for it would be a way to control it like soldiers control drones.

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u/jkurratt Oct 24 '24

Human not thinking about other humans is weird.
Even gods we create have human shape and do human things…

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u/CybGorn Oct 24 '24

I am sure if they want to weaponize it. They can stick 3 pairs of arms if they can. This is the basic still in progress prototype model.