Re:Do You Love Me? [video]
by serf on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @04:23PM
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>Part of the reason the robots evoke little excitement is because after a short look, you can realize they're just large puppets.
I think it's more like the Feynman example of how a scientist may look at a flower.
A person may see a full-size puppet when they see a choreographed robot, but all I can think about is how complicated the mechanisms -- software and hardware -- must be in order to dynamically balance a robot while maintaining whatever timing is called out for the choreography work; and the person-hours that such work must have consumed.
Re:Do You Love Me? [video]
by chris_wot on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:48AM
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It's amazing to me they see a puppet. Do they call a car a puppet? It's controlled by a human. The robot spot is hardly what I'd call a puppet, for instance.
I think it's more like the Feynman example of how a scientist may look at a flower.
A person may see a full-size puppet when they see a choreographed robot, but all I can think about is how complicated the mechanisms -- software and hardware -- must be in order to dynamically balance a robot while maintaining whatever timing is called out for the choreography work; and the person-hours that such work must have consumed.