They still have the hockey stick around as a reminder to Atlas.

  • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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    9 hours ago

    From the couch, I don’t understand why a humanoid body would be best for this… We humans have to work with what we initially had, but why wouldn’t a robot be better? Seems like even a wheeled/threaded cart, or a quadruped with arms could be more practical in a lot of situations…

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      45 minutes ago

      Because a human body has no capability of controlling a non-human design. My fingers bend the way human fingers bend, I can’t make them do anything else.

      If you all design an interface to emulate human behavior then it needs to have human capabilities and human limits otherwise I can’t control it.

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      7 hours ago

      The idea isn’t to be hyper specialized to a specific task. It’s to be hyper generalized to fit into spots already being filled by human workers. The goal is for the machine to be placed in the role of a paid human worker without the need to specialize anything else in the environment, a drop-in automation solution.