Robots are pretty cool

[rachel]

I'm looking forward to riding around on robotic horses

[here cums the fuck truck]

that vid just popped up on my feed. it annoys me they made a 40 minute video on attaching the robot to the carriage, but the carriage build, which took five days, has no video. Grr!

[rachel]

that vid just popped up on my feed. it annoys me they made a 40 minute video on attaching the robot to the carriage, but the carriage build, which took five days, has no video. Grr!

Yeah it kinda looks like a modified wheelchair

[Ozmiander]

Savage is a hack and a condescending fuck.

[here cums the fuck truck]

Savage is a hack and a condescending fuck.

i am starting to think this is the case

but his one day builds have some pretty good tips in em

[rachel]

Super strong artificial muscles called HASEL actuators can lift between 200 - 1000 times their own weight and are super inexpensive to produce.

https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/14/eaar3276.full
https://www.newsweek.com/soft-robotics-self-healing-actuators-muscles-hasel-771612

[woodneko]

hmmmmm, taking note of this for later

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[rachel]

Disclaimer: This isn't actually Jordan Peterson saying this, but it was generated with a neural network.

• kamalov tipped 5 Coral for this post

[rachel]

https://openbionics.com/

Meet the Hero Arm, the world's first clinically approved 3D-printed bionic arm, with multi-grip functionality and empowering aesthetics. Engineered in Bristol, UK, the Hero Arm is a lightweight and affordable myoelectric prosthesis, available now in the USA, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, for below elbow amputee adults and children aged eight and above. Grab, pinch, high-five, fist bump, thumbs-up. Welcome to the future, where disabilities are superpowers.

[rachel]

A video with examples of AIs trying to cheat at various tasks. For example, instead of playing a video game and racing to the finish, the AI just picks up powerups over and over because you get more points that way.

[rachel]

YouTube just suggested this to me. I guess I have to subscribe to his channel now.

Can highly intelligent agents have stupid goals?
A look at The Orthogonality Thesis and the nature of stupidity.

He has more hair in this video.

[kamalov]

[rachel]

Boston Dynamics is selling robots now

https://shop.bostondynamics.com/



"only" $75,000

with addons like LIDAR and camera modules

[here cums the fuck truck]

what are some possible uses for a bot package like that, beyond grad students fucking around with "research" ?

[Ozmiander]

what are some possible uses for a bot package like that, beyond grad students fucking around with "research" ?

tight/dangerous spaces?