IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
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IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
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Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#2I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#3Next step: add an RTG power source and make it look like a boy.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#4I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit
I feel like the funny part is that there are so many "robot" mask designs in pop culture that would look 1000x more comforting than a slightly psychotic looking robotic doll
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#5Can we please be honest with ourselves for a second and call out the ridiculousness of the "find a lost hiker" and "disaster relief" excuses used by kill-bot companies?
Who is this robot going to save with glowing hot turbine engines on it's fore-arms.
This is kill-bot tech put on the iCub to get articles in circulation.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#6"disaster response" is code for "we built the robot before realizing we need to justify it to others" https://xkcd.com/2128
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#7I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit
I feel like the funny part is that there are so many "robot" mask designs in pop culture that would look 1000x more comforting than a slightly psychotic looking robotic doll
That's exactly my idea. I would feel far more comforted being rescued by something like Chappie or The Iron Legion than something like the Sophia robot or this thing. Human-inspired over human imitation
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#8I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit
This looks like it was put together by Sid in his room.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#9Can we please be honest with ourselves for a second and call out the ridiculousness of the "find a lost hiker" and "disaster relief" excuses used by kill-bot companies? Who is this robot going to save with glowing hot turbine engines on it's fore-arms. This is kill-bot tech put on the iCub to get articles in circulation.
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Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#10I really feel like people need to stop trying to make these sorts of robots look so "human-like". The effect of a mouthless bald doll head strapped on top of an iron man robot isn't exactly comforting, to me anyway. It starts to hit the uncanny valley a bit
A similar type of robot is key to the plot of the superbly quirky film 'Brian and Charles' [0] in which a nutty inventor build a robot that looks exactly a weird old-man's head stuck on top of a washing-machine shaped body.