https://gravity.co/ is a similar project that seems to be much more advanced, and also attaches to a real human body, rather than a nightmare doll head
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
#32> “is that the exhaust gas from the turbines is at 800 °C and almost supersonic speed.
MY SHOES ARE ON FIRE!
They kinda handwaved the whole "wash the disaster area in superheated jet exhaust before doing your S&R" problem.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#33https://gravity.co/ is a similar project that seems to be much more advanced, and also attaches to a real human body, rather than a nightmare doll head
Man, the carnage that will inevitably happen when someone pushes this thing too far. I suppose that’s true of many things (motorcycles), but this just terrifies me.
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#34"disaster response" is code for "we built the robot before realizing we need to justify it to others" https://xkcd.com/2128
Came here to say this. It appears 14 words into the article! I laughed out loud and immediately stopped reading. Write an article when their robot has "saved" at least one living thing and I'll pay attention. Until then it's just vapor. In the meantime I'll wear my downvotes with pride.
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#35Can 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.
If you truly wanted to do this, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has already proven that you can drop bombs via drones with pinpoint accuracy for dirt cheap.
If somebody's going to work on something a million times more the cost and a similar fractional multiple of the effectiveness, maybe you can take them at face value that they're not building a murderbot (at least not by design).
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#36Can 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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#37https://gravity.co/ is a similar project that seems to be much more advanced, and also attaches to a real human body, rather than a nightmare doll head
It's also incredibly difficult to learn to use and to operate. The whole point of putting a robot in the cockpit is that it won't make mistakes humans will and thus be more fuel efficient (e.g., longer operation times).
At least if you can keep the weight down.
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#38I 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.
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#39Why would you need bipedism for a flying object ? Wouldn't a quadripod + quadcopter setup would be much more stable and cheaper ?
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Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#40Can 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.
If you truly wanted to do this, the Russia-Ukraine conflict has already proven that you can drop bombs via drones with pinpoint accuracy for dirt cheap. If somebody's going to work on something a million times more the cost and a similar fractional multiple of the effectiveness, maybe you can take them at face value that they're not building a murderbot (at least not by design).
> at face value
Freaky baby face value.