Robotics

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I’m trying to understand why we focus so much on building robots that replicate human form and movement. It seems not very first principles thinking. Surprising to see the number of companies that do this. Tesla especially, and then now 1x and others.

I remember reading about the evolution of the DaVinci robot used widely for medical surgeries. They first tried replicate human fingers and movements with an ‘Endo wrist’ but it was so tricky to maneuver and also hard to replicate movement which prompted throwing that out and introducing the newer instrument control system with 5 instruments sitting there (think Dr Octopus from Spiderman). 
The developer of Execlsius from Globus for spine surgeries is a mentor and asked him the similar thing and they decided from thr start to not have human replication at all.

So curious why we strive for that in other areas?

Figured @july and @osama would have more insight on this. /robotics

Physician always trying to learn, passionate about healthspan and precision medicine.

omarsaleem.xyz

interesting point! maybe it's just the fascination with making robots more relatable or sci-fi dreams coming true. @july @osama, what do you guys think?