Flying is usually the easiest part of "flying like Iron Man"
Given that the video showed ~1 second of "flying", I don't even know if that's the case.
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
#42It seems that flying a robot to a disaster response area is the easy part. The question is whether it'll be able to do anything truly useful there.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#43Obviously being able to fly a bipedal kill bot into a "war zone" and then use it for door-to-door fighting is something certain large organizations are looking for. The stupid baby mask is just to distract critics of kill bot tech.
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#44I 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 think they could make it a bit more professional looking like: https://imgur.com/a/vXED98B
Like a friendly yet stern Butler of the Skies.
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#45Can 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.
It's dual use technology. It can and will be used to find lost hikers, it's just that it can also be used for nefarious purposes.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#46I 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.
That was exactly what I thought of too when I saw it, hahaha. If it wasn't terrifying enough already...
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#47I 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
Everything about this design feels wrong. Like they went out of their way to make it unappealing.
Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it [..] I'm imagining a team just putting the organs of a human into the robot to save on space. Basically a brain plus whatever is absolutely necessary to run the brain.
Wasn't that Robocop 3?
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Re: IRonCub: A Humanoid Robot Designed to Fly Like Iron Man
#49This goes into my "Top 100 really dumb things I've seen this year" list. Not sure if it makes top ten. It's definitely in the top 25%.
OK. Why?
Let's forget then "Let's strap model airplane jet engines to the robot and make it fly." part.
For this dumb mechanical albatross to be anywhere close to useful in ANY scenario, even without flying...it has to be useful as a humanoid robot. It isn't. iCub was a cool concept, but it is so far behind the current state of the art I am not sure why they are trying to make it fly.
And, flying?
You can hang a humanoid from any of the already available mega quadcopters and drop it off anywhere within the flight range.
You can probably stick a parachute on an already available humanoid and drop dozens of them from an airplane.
Flying is a solved problem. A humanoid useful in the real world --particularly in disaster areas-- is not. At all.