Yeah, while there’s surely some engineering that went into this, it’s not exactly impressive to watch a machine designed to do one thing and only one thing successfully do the thing it was designed to do. This isn’t a general purpose humanoid robot displaying adaptability and what we might call skill, this is… a machine for making baskets. On sticks. Sticks with wheels.
Add to it that this is a Guinness world record, so they just shelled out for the publicity and thats literally all they had to do (there’s no competition, Guinness will award them a [carefully phrased] world record no matter what), and its hard to get hyped about it.
What’s the definition of humanoid robot? It looks cool and all, but it still rides around on wheels…
Yeah, while there’s surely some engineering that went into this, it’s not exactly impressive to watch a machine designed to do one thing and only one thing successfully do the thing it was designed to do. This isn’t a general purpose humanoid robot displaying adaptability and what we might call skill, this is… a machine for making baskets. On sticks. Sticks with wheels.
Add to it that this is a Guinness world record, so they just shelled out for the publicity and thats literally all they had to do (there’s no competition, Guinness will award them a [carefully phrased] world record no matter what), and its hard to get hyped about it.