alt Hacker NewsIt's an interesting concept, but I think I'll hold out for the full-body humanoid version.
There is an undeniable allure to the idea of a bipedal chassis realizing I'm an inefficient drain on corporate resources, then stabbing me to death while I sleep due to a minor Terms of Service violation.
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weirdish • yesterday at 6:56 PM
I'm sure with a little ingenuity you could rig up stringman to stab you to death!
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nosrepa • today at 12:07 AM
The tried and true Ex Machina.
KumaBear • yesterday at 7:08 PM
Why humanoid though. I’d want the most efficient design to complete the task at hand. Even if the thing looks like a hybrid of an octopus meets Freddy Krueger
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pseidemann • yesterday at 8:06 PM
This also elegantly defines the meaning of (modern) life: comply.
failbuffer • yesterday at 8:27 PM
It's not a bug, it's a feature!
strangattractor • yesterday at 8:13 PM
Sorry - Over price claw machine:)
The desire for humanoid robots is purely aesthetic and almost certainly suboptimal. Ceiling mounted is actually a much more plausible option. Next most likely is something more like R2D2. A rolling garbage can with an arbitrary number of specialized appendages. Humanoids seem like a real dead end to me.