Saturday, November 17, 2018

Machines Should Not Emulate Living Functions

Cars do not move on legs. Airplanes do not flap wings. It is for that reason they are 100 times or even a thousand times better than living beings.

This robot imitates a person. It even looks like a person with legs, arms, and hands. Go back to the drawing board. It should be a cheaper robot specific to installation of gypsum boards. It should carry 10 of them up front. Move them into place, and punch nails into the studs. The framing studs should be standardized to accommodate it. Things that do a lot of tasks do none well. For example an amphibious car does neither task well.

Better yet, such work should be done at a specialized factory. I once watched a condo being built. They would slide an entire long narrow floor into place on sleds. Each floor took a couple of days to install.

https://phys.org/news/2018-11-humanoid-robot-prototype-hrp-5p-capable.html

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