Robot of the day
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- uan0
- uan2
I want this one, but programmed to guard and escort kids.
also with some kind of GPT4 AI modelled to assist the kids in learning.
- uan0
- NBQ001
Boston Dynamics at it again...
- I used to have wonder and excitement seeing these robots...now I want to know how to kill it.koma_
- 1999 just called...they want their tech back!utopian
- lol utopian, do you even know what you're talking? nothing in 1999 could do this.NBQ00
- Johnny 5 alive!_niko
- it got no front / back! It's got no knees! fuck thatmaquito
- Is it because of post-cold war education, all that futuristic Jetsons-like shit, and/or the Terminator effect that this scare the shit out of me?maquito
- *makesmaquito
- funnier to scare you with this freaky move than to show that it's made to do tasks what would be impossible with the limitations of the human body :)sted
- also i think it sticks and gets shared better :)sted
- just splash a glass of water at itKrassy
- This is so we all think of ‘80s Japan or Wall-e, while the robots that make rissoles from humans are at 80% charge.MrT
- lost in space robot:
https://i.ytimg.com/…milfhunter - So, now they are actively trying to freak us out?jagara
- lol krassymaquito
- Blomkamp's got some research to do for sure for his next movie huhmaquito
- I'm with you jagara...OBBTKN
- Continuity4
- awe, always wanted to see that thingYakuZoku
- Same.
And if you're a Macross fan, in Tokyo (I think?) there's a life-sized VF-25F from Macross Frontier in Gerwalk mode.Continuity - Doesn't move, though. Just sits there and LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME.Continuity
- zaq1
- yuekit0
Lots of people joking around in this thread...meanwhile
How long before this exists in real life?
- uan0
- imbecile2
- how'd it take them so long to figure this is what we want... next, sparkles grabs a beer from the fridge and boston dynamics stonks to the moonkingsteven
- bezoar0
- I might be mistake, but isn't it Shōji Kawamori (creator of all the Macross TV series and designer of all of its variable fighters/Valkyries) who designed this?Continuity
- imbecile2
Scientists build a robot that is part fungus, part machine
A wheeled bot rolls across the floor. A soft-bodied robotic star bends its five legs, moving with an awkward shuffle.
Powered by conventional electricity via plug or battery, these simple robotic creations would be unremarkable, but what sets these two robots apart is that they are controlled by a living entity: a king oyster mushroom.
By growing the mushroom’s mycelium, or rootlike threads, into the robot’s hardware, a team led by Cornell University researchers has engineered two types of robots that sense and respond to the environment by harnessing electrical signals made by the fungus and its sensitivity to light.
The robots are the latest accomplishment of scientists in a field known as biohybrid robotics who seek to combine biological, living materials such as plant and animal cells or insects with synthetic components to make partly living and partly engineered entities.
Biohybrid robots have yet to venture beyond the lab, but researchers hope one day robot jellyfish may explore oceans, sperm-powered bots may be able to deliver fertility treatments and cyborg cockroaches could search for survivors in the wake of an earthquake.
