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Re:IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man by voidUpdate on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:10AM (#45491013)
It's being advertised as being used for generic disaster recovery, where it's beneficial to be human-shaped (human infrastructure is designed for humans, so its easier to interface with it if the robot is human-shaped too), so they just strapped some jets on it to take it to the disaster zone itself
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Re:IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man by meindnoch on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:41AM (#45491333)
>It's being advertised as being used for generic disaster recovery, where it's beneficial to be human-shaped (human infrastructure is designed for humans, so its easier to interface with it if the robot is human-shaped too)

Ummmm, disaster recovery is hard precisely because the infrastructure (e.g. a collapsed building) ceased to be suitable for humans.

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Re:IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man by voidUpdate on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @04:03AM (#45500555)
The way in which it isn't suitable for humans depends on the disaster though. If somewhere is flooded or on fire, a humanoid robot will probably be able to navigate it better than a quadrupedal one. If the building is collapsed, sure
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Re:IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man by input_sh on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:19AM (#45491100)
That's just something robot manufacturers say to justify building their expensive toys, I promise you it'll never be used for that purpose.

See the XKCD someone has already posted below.

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Re:IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man by voidUpdate on Monday October 06, 2025 @09:25AM (#45491175)
Yeah I know, but that's what they're advertising it as
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