[HN Gopher] Building the world's most realistic robot
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       Building the world's most realistic robot
        
       Author : marban
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2022-05-13 04:04 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | photochemsyn wrote:
       | Suggestion: hybridize this with the Boston Dynamics robo-dog to
       | make centaur robots.
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       | Challenge: see if the result can carry a cup of coffee across a
       | room without spilling it.
        
       | JoeDaDude wrote:
       | Very nice work, but I would still prefer cartoony anime robots to
       | realistic humanoid ones.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-GKwqTxtS8
        
         | jotm wrote:
         | I like anime but dear God those are nightmare fuel. Direct 2D
         | to 3D "translation" never seems to work right, and the glowing
         | eyes are just demonic O_O. It is possible to make them look
         | much better in the real world.
        
       | jotm wrote:
       | Wow, it looks really nice, I never heard about these people. I
       | don't really see the point in modelling them after humans, but
       | yeah, impressive.
       | 
       | It's interesting how software has yet to match to the hardware.
       | We could have had Johnny 5 like robots helping around a long time
       | ago.
        
       | otikik wrote:
       | It ends with.
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       | > You look at biological systems and then you try and emulate it,
       | and you end up thinking -- and I'm not religious -- but you end
       | up thinking, 'How the hell did this happen?'
       | 
       | Considering that the project has taken several millions of years
       | to complete and the budget was billions of sentient beings born
       | and dead, (including several major extinction events), I am a bit
       | disappointed by the result.
        
         | goatcode wrote:
         | It resulted in you, so I can understand your disappointment.
        
         | Hnaomyiph wrote:
         | Disappointed by the result of billions of inanimate particles
         | bonding and forming not only self-replicating structures, but
         | adapting to continually self-replicate and iterate on
         | successful/unsuccessful changes?
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         | I'm not disappointed, I'm amazed. Amazed that over the course
         | of several billion years these inanimate particles and
         | structures have progressed to such a point that we can even
         | ponder them and express our disappointment in them.
        
           | daenz wrote:
           | The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created.
           | This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely
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           | 
           | -Douglas Adams
        
       | bee_rider wrote:
       | I wonder if they intentionally model these after real people (the
       | one in the video looks kind of like a Cillian Murphy bot, and
       | they have what appears to be a Trump bot on the bottom shelf in
       | the second photo).
        
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