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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago

Biblically accurate robot?

[-] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

This would've fucked me up as a kid. 🤣 I was scared of those expanding ball toys:

[-] espurr@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago

i dont like it

[-] msage@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, man-made horrors beyond my comprehension.

[-] Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Seems great to explore the shallow ocean or potentially lakes, especially if you can add different kinds of cameras

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Well, if you can waterproof it. Might be quite challenging. 😅

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Looks like a lot of redundancy. Or in other words, the design seems wasteful.
Maybe it's good for something, and it's cool to try radically different concepts. Who knows, maybe they learn something from it that is actually useful.

[-] valar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Redundancy can be good

[-] certified_expert@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You could argue that the cost of cameras and actuators is not a limiting factor. I find it interesting

[-] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't like an eight-legged crawling bot with a 360 degree camera be able to do the same and faster? Seems like there's a lot of time spend in air where he can't control himself that well.

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Doesn't a sphere like this make more sense?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZCA38dtX34

[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Kind of confusing to me. Because personally I have thought the concept of imitating dogs and humans walking, is a potential weak point in robot design. But this? I fail to see it's practicality. It seems, better at, going directly left when it was going forward? The fact that the whole design rolls to move makes it fairly, impractical for any tasks involving moving things or using anything. It can travel on sand, though I'd imagine stairs or even too high of a hill would be implausible.

[-] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Mildyhorrifying

[-] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's not really Eldridge if we make it right?

it's like a metaphor of some kind

[-] jambudz@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Kill it with fire.

[-] dudleyflippendoodle@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And the Argus is practiced compassion. With an eye on you, As one is on meeeeeeee

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