this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2024
206 points (96.4% liked)
interestingasfuck
759 readers
150 users here now
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Didn't mean to imply they hadn't been doing anything, that's why I used the word "frame." There are all kinds of videos of that robot trying to do backflips and the hydraulics busting in the process or other issues which would necessitate internal upgrades. Just thought it was strange that each iteration shown up to 2016 was of a different model, then we get 6 in a row of essentially the same one.
That usually means they got to a high level of refinement they don't need to upgrade, because there's some kind of incredibly difficult obstacle to overcome (like today's lithium batteries that have not developed much in the last decade), or it's such a good design that they developed the base for the next decades of humanoid robots models (just think of a pen that has been the same for a century, because it's as good as it gets)