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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 39 points 1 day ago (23 children)

It's clear they made this weird on purpose but still, so many questions...

the robot hangs suspended from the ceiling as its limbs twitch and kick, marking what the company claims is a step toward its goal of creating household-helper robots

Oh yeah, definitely a huge step in that direction...

Clone Robotics designed the Protoclone with a polymer skeleton that replicates 206 human bones

That's all of the bones of an human adult. Yeah, I'm sure absolutely all of them were necessary.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe they're attempting to make it 'learn' how to move itself using neural networking instead of programming discrete movement presets.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ooh yeah let’s hope that’s the case.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

the only thing I'm hoping for is that this can serve as a proof of concept that human brains might be able to learn to control limbs made of synthetic muscles like that...

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