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Great, it’s like the robot from that Black Mirror episode “Metalhead” had a baby with the Wheelers from Return to Oz.
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Not available on Amazon, yet.
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Honestly, though…I could really get behind a push to integrate systems like this into physical assistance systems for folks who are physically challenged, like muscular dystrophy or amputees.
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Maybe, but I don’t know if that needs to be a robot like this?
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Scientists: “How can i hasten the robot uprising?”
Every fucking time.
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As the robot mostly rolls, I wonder if there’s a better word to describe it than “quadruped”?
Quadruvolve kind of works, but applies to anything with 4 wheels.
Quadruvolvuped?
Quadrupeduvolve?
Maybe just ignore the 4 part and call it a volvuped or peduvolve.
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This humanoid-quadruped transformer was trained with machine learning to roll on two wheels.
Welp, that seems appropriate. I’m glad it didn’t use animal learning.
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Quadruped robot: “So. When do I lose these training wheels?”
Trainer: “Never.”
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ready steady planet
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Well, there goes our plan to avoid the robot uprising by putting important things up on the counter…
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I feel like “humanoid” is a bit of a stretch.
Segway, before it was bought out by Ninebot, had a prototype vehicle called the Centaur which looked sort of like a go-kart. On four wheels it drove like one, too, but if the driver threw his body backward in the seat, the Centaur would go up on its rear wheels and proceed to glide like a Segway. I got to try it out, and I am here to testify that that thing was a blast and a half.
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Your move, Boston Dynamics.
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