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Aman Dhesi
@aman
Is there something inherently better about the biped humanoid form or are people building humanoid robots because we’ve shaped the world around us to fit humans?
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Victor Ma 🧾
@vm
probably the latter, until there's a design that gets adopted that's just that much better, like when every robot on battlebots became a spinning thing with blades
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Gabriel Ayuso
@gabrielayuso.eth
I'd say it's partially because of your latter point but also for familiarity and comfort. We might be more accepting of a humanoid friendly looking robot that anything else. I suspect insect structures would be better but it would creep us out.
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osama
@osama
feels later b/c we seem convinced we’re the most evolved species 🤔
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John Gazzini
@gazzini
There's been a real stigma against spider-bots ever since Otto Octavius tarnished the category.
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Chaotic Neutral
@jayce
I imagine something centaur-esque would be somewhat disturbing. Disturbing… but cool.
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
would love to see some tripods
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Ertan Dogrultan
@ertan
I think neither. biped walking is an interesting problem space but from utility point of view, you could build a quadruped robot (or some better design) that can do it all in the human world. there might be psychological reasons for HCI but these might also change as we have more robots around.
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Alberto Ornaghi
@alor
The latter. A self balancing two wheels robot will be better on flat surfaces. But we built stairs that fit our legs and motions. A slope instead of stairs is better for a robot but worse for us…
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Mengatti
@mengatti
Marketing? Solve for biped to cater for old fantasies, get money to build better suited weird solutions The biped solution is rather fit for transitioning logistics to robots: less retrofit of warehouses first setup to be operated by humans, for instance.
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Steve
@kausek
Frees up two limbs to do other things. More efficient use of constrained resources
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