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I am going human skeleton for my project and think it is a awesome approach. But I do think it raises complexity and cost of manufacturing in several ways. It is "harder" in some ways. But the final product also has potential to blow out of the water these other approaches everybody else are...

solar power generates very little energy and only massive panel arrays can collect enough sun to be significant. The amount of total area of panels fitting on the humanoid would take like 3 months to give it enough charge to work for a single day.

The only bottleneck I imagine is just getting hung up learning a ton of AI stuff or w/e but not actually having a project you are passionate about where you are making progress to keep your morale up and keep you moving forward. It would be hard to persist if you didn't have that carrot on the...

One day later: As I edit the above writing, I am realizing I missed another MASSIVE hard part of the project I never mentioned. Perhaps even on the same level of hard of the things I already mentioned. That is the managerial execution on your life to make such a big and time consuming and money...

I recently had an associate disagree with me that if I push through this phase of the project I'll be home free. He said he thinks the AI relating to robot balance and sensory input and physical execution based on sensory feedback will be the hardest part. While I agree that will be time...

Took a little break on the pulleys work to rig up the cables into the index finger to test the grasping of the index finger. I ended up using 70lb test PE braided fishing line for this and 1mm ID x 2mm OD PTFE teflon tubing as the guide tube. I sewed the fishing line into the index bone fabric...

Update: in testing, I found the string is wedging between the bearing and the plastic discs sandwiching in the bearing. So I need to now make the bearing have a grooved outer race that will keep the string centered on it and not wanting to drift into the crack on either side of the bearing. To...

I have really wanted to make a robotic lawnmower myself for years, but I refuse to do so because if I just hold out for longer, I'll have a humanoid robot done that can push a regular mower which would make a robotic mower unnecessary and a waste of time to have made.

As I'm now 90% through making my first 64:1 downgearing Archimedes pulley system and testing and debugging it, I now have more precise measurements for the Archimedes pulley system's total size. I updated the size of it in my main CAD model for the robot and it was a good 18% increase compared...

Here is a updated drawing design for the 64:1 downgearing pulley system for the index finger actuation of the distal 2 joints of the finger. On the bottom right is a zoomed in view on the lower set of pulleys and their routing. The bottom most 3 pulleys in the zoomed in portion I have now built...

I posted my Biblical view on your thread and I'll post it here too: The Biblical position is that sex is only permissible within the context of marriage between a man and a woman. The two leave their parents and cleave to one another and become one flesh. A robot is a machine and so cannot...

The Biblical position is that sex is only permissible within the context of marriage between a man and a woman. The two leave their parents and cleave to one another and become one flesh. A robot is a machine and so cannot become one flesh with a man or woman and so cannot marry a person in...

actually, since I'm building 3 robots so far tentatively - Adam, Eve, and Abel, I do intend to have at least one attractive female robot at this time. In fact I already made a base mesh model of it. So this is the Eve robot. Eve will have no "love holes" because adding those would be sinful...

I just think they mathematically and statistically calculate the best next word to form a sentence with zero striving or understanding involved whatsoever. Just mindless calculating and walking through the formulas. Like if I press 1+1 and the calculator responds with 2, I don't take that as...

Good points. The humanoid robot is the swiss army knife form factor for robots. It can do it all. I've wanted a robotic lawnmower for many years but hold off because I'd rather build a humanoid that can just use our push lawnmower. This has the advantage of enabling us to mow if we are in...

Well the coding of the AI, the designing of the hardware, and the design and implementing of the electronics are 3 separate departments of a big company like Boston Dynamics. So whichever one of those three you want to work on IMO. If you want to learn all of them and be able to do them all to...

Even the well-known companies have repeatedly stated that the majority of their actuators and stuff are custom. There aren't enough people making humanoids to justify a startup developing humanoid specific actuators for sale. Not enough demand. Plus the actuators strategies are still...

Thanks. My concern on implementing "emotions" in my AI is that I don't want to promote the idea that robots can ACTUALLY have emotions because I don't believe that is possible nor ever will be. They don't have a spirit or soul and never will nor could they. They are not eternal beings like...

I just bought EMEET USB Speakerphone M0 4 AI Mics Speakerphone for Conference Calls 360° Voice Pickup Conference Speakerphone for Computer Plug and Plays Computer Speaker with Microphone for 4 People --- it was around $33 and includes a speaker too. I'll position it centrally in the skull and...

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