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Not really. Auto belay device can't hold the climber up on the wall, like human belayer can, so that climber can rest and try again. Auto belay device can't do lead belay.
They're not wide spread but they can do lead belay, I've seen a few videos of it online https://climbingbusinessjournal.com/could-your-gym-be-gettin...
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How many diapers have you changed, out of curiosity? I've changed maybe 5,000 diapers (4 kids non-primary caregiver), and I feel confident that a shower head + hair dryer is not going to be safe or in fact work at all in many circumstances.
Never actually... I think the key for the machine is to secure the baby in such ways that the pelvis stays at the same position in space, without breaking bones or tearing muscles. That's normally not possible because a human hand isn't big enough and grippy enough to hold them that way, and that allows the baby to slip out or wiggle around. But if you could, and if the I-shaped types of diapers are tolerated, then t…
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> washing the bottom What about washing all the other places where baby's poop can get? (Legs, feet, hands, arms with some difficulty, all the way up the back, etc)
Showerhead can still do that. You can pretty much put water everywhere on a human body, as long as you make sure that they can still breath. Legs and arms and the back etc are fairly trivial to clean with a showerhead. Skinfolds are where I would expect problems. Btw, your system doesn't need to handle all corner cases of cleaning to be useful. It needs to not hurt anyone (in all cases); handle most common cases of c…
Here's a use case that seems more science fictional to me (as the parent of a 2yo) than warp drive: a robot that can gently restrain an uncooperative human baby while changing its diaper, with everything that entails: identifying and eliminating all traces of waste from all crevices, applying diaper cream as necessary, unfolding and positioning the new diaper correctly and quickly, always using enough but never too m…
> a baby some robot neglects to prevent from falling off the changing table that is when we think about 2 handed robots. 6 handed robot can easily have 2-3 hands assigned to tightly keeping the baby. Humanoid robots are handicapped by their similarity to humans which is really an artificial constraint. After all we aren't building airplanes using birds as the blueprint. On the similar note - while not about baby, was…
Can I say something: could you all please stop inserting contaminated tool back into a jar of food? You use a clean tool to take out the amount you eat, and that's it. You can put it back if the tool had touched nothing but: air, the food in the jar, and your hand at the operating end. Otherwise, that butter knife stays on your dish for the rest of the meal. The exception would be if you cleaned the tool, like bare m…
> but just, how can you stand possible breadcrumbs IN THE JAR!? Bacteria can do a number on people... Kept telling the wife to not cross contaminate jars, and other products. But you know, she knows better... Wife was eating some fish in can, puts spoon back (with lovely saliva bacteria), puts in fridge "i wil eat tomorrow", 2 days later she eats the leftover. She enjoyed a hour+ of "fun" muscles contracting stomach…
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Showerhead can still do that. You can pretty much put water everywhere on a human body, as long as you make sure that they can still breath. Legs and arms and the back etc are fairly trivial to clean with a showerhead. Skinfolds are where I would expect problems. Btw, your system doesn't need to handle all corner cases of cleaning to be useful. It needs to not hurt anyone (in all cases); handle most common cases of c…
do you have any idea how many folds a baby has, and how much poop they can hide in them?
But perhaps sons are worse?
Here's a use case that seems more science fictional to me (as the parent of a 2yo) than warp drive: a robot that can gently restrain an uncooperative human baby while changing its diaper, with everything that entails: identifying and eliminating all traces of waste from all crevices, applying diaper cream as necessary, unfolding and positioning the new diaper correctly and quickly, always using enough but never too m…
Nearly every surgeon used advanced robots to assist with surgeries. My uncle does kidney transplants and he uses robots, so do most surgeons.
For robots to be developed, someone must pay for it. Doctors get skill++ with the surgery robots. There may be vasectomy robots that assist with circumcision, or some actively being developed that doctors would pay for. That would be a far more interesting development than changing diapers. Unless extremely competent and skilled people ( +1000/hour) need them for their work, they won't be developed, so I don't think a diaper changing robot is being developed.