well obviously robot =awesome
but I can't help wondering what the actual functional advantage is in making them human shaped.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:49, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

I think it's so if they break down a person could use their tools.
or something.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Naah, It is so they are shaggable
Without the interspecies guilt thing.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:02, Reply)

makes sence of the hands I suppose
but why not give them more armes for example and the head, i assume is contains a camera and it's in a good place for that but making it head shaped? It's just pointless anthropomorphism.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:06, Reply)

For someone who can spell 'anthropomorphism'
you didn't half fuck the rest of that post up.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Ha!

(TheColonel, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 13:06, Reply)

Two ideas here
1: The robot is working alongside humans, and being controlled by them. It makes sense that the operator senses what the robot senses in a human way. If the robot bangs its knee for example, the operator would detect a banged knee. without having to think, what was that.

2: For the robot, it is working in a human environment, and needs to be able to get at the same things a human can. No use having 3 metre arms or be as big as a brief case, as the situation should not exist where it faces problems a human would not be able to solve too.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 9 Feb 2010, 12:17, Reply)