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ihateshadylandlords t1_j46r2iz wrote

One step closer to rub and tug supermodel androids practical robotics!

FYI this was also posted a year ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/qcaznm/this_is_not_the_product_of_a_big_corporation_he/

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ElvinRath t1_j46vp0x wrote

>Realistic humanoid robotic arm

Lol, they say that they accept preorders in the website (But they don't), they also have some new (quite different, more robotic) videos...

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https://www.patreon.com/clonerobotics

https://twitter.com/clonerobotics

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Anyway it looks cool, but speaking honestly, deep inside, I can't help but think that it has to be some kind of scam...I mean, it's too cool to have a patreon with a few hundred dollars....

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arckeid t1_j46xshl wrote

Look their channel, they have been working in this for years.

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lacergunn t1_j47t2vl wrote

Oh they changed their name. Used to be called "automation robotics", was thinking the project just up and died when I couldn't find it

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Spoffort t1_j4cqfqk wrote

The arm in new videos is almost identical.

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arKowboy t1_j46ky6q wrote

how tight can it squeeze?

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shmoculus t1_j46nj90 wrote

tight enough

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ledocteur7 t1_j4ad4x8 wrote

hopefully not too tight for safety.

you wouldn't want it crushing your.. hand. yes, handholding robot..

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yti555 t1_j47hkwa wrote

As a 25 year old stroke patient with a relatively useless limb I really really fucking wish something like this or neuro link will restore movement to my wrist and fingers. Born too soon I guess

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Bamlet t1_j48ph54 wrote

I bet you'll see some astonishing developments either in bionics or neurological repair in the next 10-20 years

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halomate1 t1_j49yfhf wrote

Honestly, you’re on time, if Ray Kurzweil is right we are on the “knee” of the curve of exponential technology growth, you’ll see crazy new advancements 10-20 years from now.

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IluvBsissa t1_j47gpxh wrote

This is very old...and not actually useful.

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Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_j46lhii wrote

It looks more impressive than it actually is. The human hand is infinitely better than this, and this requires a huge valve/pump/hose/manifold system.

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Amazing-Bit6140 t1_j48h4h7 wrote

> this requires a huge valve/pump/hose/manifold system

so does a human hand

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Equivalent-Ice-7274 t1_j48iir3 wrote

It’s much bigger than what a human hand requires

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Spoffort t1_j4cqqbp wrote

It depends, are we including heart for pumping? And what about power delivery, should we include guts and lungs?

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erotyk t1_j47kvh1 wrote

Sarif industries origin story

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footurist t1_j49exnq wrote

Yet one less workout excuse gone...

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ledocteur7 t1_j4ad1dt wrote

neat, tho we can't see what the arm is attached to whish makes me thing that there is probably a huge jumble of servos hidden out of sight to make the whole thing work.

but it's definitely promising, and if the ""only"" major problem left is powering it then it has great potential for prosthetics, it might require a backpack or at least a pouch to house the electronics, but between that and not having a functional arm I doubt anyone in need of such a prosthetic would mind wearing a pouch all day long.

and with sensor based brain-computer interface starting to become practical, that opens up a lot of possibility.

the whole thing is relatively simple in principle as well, it's mostly the software that complicated, so making other limbs is probably only a matter of time.

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stinkyfatman2016 t1_j4as1xb wrote

Could this be a possible acquisition for Boston Dynamics?

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SlowCrates t1_j4chlyp wrote

This makes Terminator 2 look horrifically outdated. In that movie, the endoskeleton shows completely mechanical looking parts that supposedly mimic infiltration-level human movements. But this video highlights the fact that in order to create human-like movements, you need human-like parts. And this is clearly just the beginning. 10-15 years from now we're going to see entire synthetic human bodies. It's going to be very interesting.

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