s5eeo (s5eeo)

Roboforming is so cool. It's a manufacturing process that uses synchronized robotic arms with special end-effectors to incrementally shape metal sheets into more complex parts. One robot pushes and deforms the sheet while the other robot provides support. This enables high customization and quick production of small batches of products, which makes it great for rapid prototyping and design iteration. The level of synchronization required for this to work precisely and reliably is way harder to achieve than it may seem.

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I've seen a lot of people argue that humanoid robots are a form of skeuomorphism because there are much better form factors, even for homes (e.g. wheel base with arms, robot dog with an arm as the head). I watched an interview where the roboticist Eric Jang shared his take on this. He believes that the humanoid form factor for an environment like a home is not just sufficient but actually necessary. And he went into concrete reasons why he thinks so, which was super interesting. If anyone wants to watch it, the discussion about this starts at 21:55 in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHsWJ_XNEz0&t=1395s I'd add some quotes from the interview here but I'll cast hem in the comments. Reaching the character limit.

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In case anyone is interested. https://warpcast.com/s5eeo/0x6a1b4f05

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Omg, it is happening: https://www.elidourado.com/p/airship-industries https://warpcast.com/s5eeo/0x14c684ad

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