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Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by pixl97 »

standardUser wrote: post #63
pixl97 wrote: post #62

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That would work for a bit, but at current trends that won't last long worldwide either.

84% of the global population are in low and middle income countries, and the vast majority of those people could have a significantly higher quality of living in a place like Japan if they were given the neccesary political protections. 6 billion people is not infinity people, and not all of those people are willing or able to move to a place like Japan to try their luck. But the idea that immigration is anywhere clo…

Populations growth rates have fallen very fast around the world sometimes with in the span of one or two generations. The global fertility rate has fallen to 2.3. Sub Saharan Africa is one of the few places left with what we would consider large growth rates. Increased standards of living in these places we typically imported people from can quickly cut off this flow and put western nations at risk, whereas we thought this flow was unlimited.

Add to this the cost of living in western countries has spiraled out of control recently, the idea that "Just move to X, things will be better" is fading from what it used to be.

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by hnbad »

johnwalkr wrote: post #78

What is it with media that attributes everything to "Japan"? Here we have a private company trying out a robot made by a much smaller private company, in Japan. It's not like the government of Japan is rolling out gundams across the nation.

The average Guardian reader never heard of that private company and definitely never heard of that much smaller private company. "Company in Japan" is also longer than simply "Japan". Plus there's still some latent orientalism at play.

But while the government of Japan likely isn't particularly involved in this project, states still like to claim tech advances (or gimmicks) happening in their country. There's a reason you often see politicians at opening ceremonies even when their government contributed nothing to what is being opened.

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

standardUser wrote: post #63
pixl97 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would work for a bit, but at current trends that won't last long worldwide either.

84% of the global population are in low and middle income countries, and the vast majority of those people could have a significantly higher quality of living in a place like Japan if they were given the neccesary political protections. 6 billion people is not infinity people, and not all of those people are willing or able to move to a place like Japan to try their luck. But the idea that immigration is anywhere clo…

and will Japan remain Japan once their population gets replaced with a vibrant stew of MENA immigrants, friend?

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by [deleted] »

rkagerer wrote: post #71
jolmg wrote: post #35

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Huh. Robot with denim jacket in Chromium, but placeholder image (mountain and sun icon) in Firefox. Can view in Firefox if cb query param is removed. Weird.

Weird, sorry about that queryparam I didn't see it there or would have stripped it.

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Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by Izkata »

ThrowawayR2 wrote: post #59
core_dumped wrote: post #15

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Eh, the classic Gundam is around 18 m tall. This comes close at 12 m. The upper body and arms certainly invoke mobile suit aesthetics though

The AV-98 Ingram from the Patlabor anime is 8 m tall, so I wouldn't count this robot out.

And the Knightmare Frames from Code Geass are around 4-6 meters tall.

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by standardUser »

123yawaworht456 wrote: post #93
standardUser wrote: post #63

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84% of the global population are in low and middle income countries, and the vast majority of those people could have a significantly higher quality of living in a place like Japan if they were given the neccesary political protections. 6 billion people is not infinity people, and not all of those people are willing or able to move to a place like Japan to try their luck. But the idea that immigration is anywhere clo…

and will Japan remain Japan once their population gets replaced with a vibrant stew of MENA immigrants, friend?

Has anywhere remained anywhere after a couple hundred years of colonization, conquest and migration? This weird idea that populations are, or should be, eternal and unchanging is pure fantasy.

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by theshackleford »

roughly wrote: post #22
ano-ther wrote: post #4

Here is a video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owSJK7vMSLk Interestingly, humans come very close to it during operation.

That looks incredibly cool, and also instantly nausea inducing - I can’t imagine the video feed and the head gyros are fast enough to avoid that little bit of lag and judder that turn VR into a vomit machine. The feedback on the arm is very cool, though.

> that little bit of lag and judder that turn VR into a vomit machine.

This doesn’t apply to everyone, so it’s just a matter of training people with more tolerance.

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

standardUser wrote: post #96
123yawaworht456 wrote: post #93

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and will Japan remain Japan once their population gets replaced with a vibrant stew of MENA immigrants, friend?

Has anywhere remained anywhere after a couple hundred years of colonization, conquest and migration? This weird idea that populations are, or should be, eternal and unchanging is pure fantasy.

will Japanese people approve of becoming a minority in their cities if you put it up for a vote?

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by cellularmitosis »

Barrin92 wrote: post #47
cellularmitosis wrote: post #40

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I was about to say, isn’t this how the plot of Patlabor starts?

Patlabor is criminally underrated, in particular Patlabor II by Oshii. Often neglected given how popular his other stuff like GitS is but probably one of the best animated films when it comes to post WWII Japan's military/political questions.

Couldn’t agree more! It is remarkable how similar it feels to GITS 95

Re: Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines

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Post by yial »

unrealhoang wrote: post #48
yial wrote: post #28

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FPV headsets can have head tracking. I don’t know cost now, but it was possible even in 2012/2013/2014 when I worked in that industry.

What's the advantages of head tracking though? I don't see it's in anyway better than just joystick to control robot head movement.

You’re already using two joysticks with your thumbs or thumbs and index to fly.
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