Donāt say crash!!
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This is the Unitree H2:
The fact that itās from a Chinese company is evident. Somehow itās a design that tries to be human, but itās a poor copy at the end of the dayā¦ Or perhaps itās a poor copy of a copy, if theyāre coping the Tesla Optimus style?
Can I say that these human imitating designs feel a bit soulless? Thereās a certain āgeneric human replacementā feel to those aesthetics. Especially when they try to add a weird faceā¦
Why not do something different? Something better? Itās a new industry, donāt draw a box to limit you before things get off the ground.
I think that the latest Atlas looks better, the Asimo looked great. And many sci-fi designs also look better just because they were not intended to look as humanā¦
Exhibit A:
Even this looks great:
Is it me or this type of designs look like a human in a weird hoodie that has built-in a visor?
Anyways, Iām sleep deprived and should probably be posting in the drink8ng threadā¦
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Wait how do you make it loop?
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AI will kill us allā¦ not because the AI does anything, because we do.
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This AGI discussion always reminds me of the philosophical dangers of such a (warning: legitimate cognitive hazard)
Rokoās basilisk
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Pretty sure that the place where that idea originated is a cultā¦ Those who are involved in that particular ācommunityā remind me of the cult where I wasted my teenage years because my mother got recruited. And their articles repeat the same BS over and over to create the illusion of consensus.
And yes, I am aware that they have articles with all sorts of excuses claiming that they are not a cultā¦
I recommend picking up āCombatting Cult Mind Controlā by Steven Hassan and giving it a read before going to such places. Understanding how you can potentially get manipulated goes a long way when it comes to preserving your freedom of thought.
And well, I find it sad that a doomsday idea that came out of a dishonest manipulative group is becoming mainstream.
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The technical term is uncanny valley and itās well known in robotic
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I wouldnāt say that the bulk of those things are in the uncanny valley, thatās why I didnāt use the term. I just find the designs a bit uninspiring.
Although the fake face is a bit uncanny.
Totally fair. I think the TARS robot design from Interstellar might be my favorite of anything Iāve seen in the last decade. Itās so unique
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For sure. I guess the more general concept of s-risks has been been around for at least a few hundred years, at least since Pascalās wager (which, one could argue, also feels culty). However, this more modern adaptation to the information age sure came from an unwell place and unwell people.
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@Eriequiet how did this go?
did you get it repaired?
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I donāt remember that repair being successful, and the following posts confirmed that:
I wouldāve liked to have access to the dog ball machine, although no-name chips can have weird pinouts, be hard to find, and not have a datasheet. This can make repairs more difficult. But still, SMD rework is something that Iām experienced with.
That reminded me of a repair I did on a rechargeable lamp that my mother gave me, it was from a British designer brand but the internals were as Chinese as it getsā¦ So the op-amp (I assume it was an op-amp being used as part of a linear current regulator) that limits the brightest failed and I was unable to find one with the same pinout. I expected a jellybean part TBH and I ended up replacing it with a piece of wire and use the mosfet as a source follower. Bit less accurate but good enough for a cheaply built lamp.
Now If I could only get some sleepā¦ Help!
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Magnets.. how do they work?!
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Thinking of bringing best implants to the market?
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We already do! Bahaha
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xxxSeries
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Half asleep me misspelled ābreastā.
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I could use a 2nd, 3rd or 4th opinion on what I did wrong.
I have dry sand. Itās pretty decently classified to a 1/8" minus size. Most of it is quartz, and some of it is very dense material.
My bright idea was to put it into a cup on a sub woofer speaker, and play a continous low Hz tone to kinda liquify the dry sand particles. My belief was it would stratify, and if I added more until it overflowed, Iād only overflow the less dense material. A.K.A. density separation by vibration.
In practice, the cup (of sand) was too heavy for my trial speaker, so I put the sand right on the speaker cone. The center of the sand rose, and the edges sank, kinda like a convection cell. The particles remained totally mixed. I checked the cup again with just a small amount of material and it did the same thing.
Frequencies from 50-100hz, lower seemed better, volume adjusted to weight of sand / load.
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It sounds to me like thereās something along the lines of standing waves on the speaker cone? Does the frequency change where the sand pools up?
A cyclone comes to mind as a potential alternative, but Iām not sure if Iām on the right track.
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