Making robots look like humans feels pretty unimaginative to me.

volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

Making robots look like humans feels pretty unimaginative to me. And it also makes some things more complicated than they need to be, doesn't it?

49016@mastodon.catgirl.cloud

@volpeon backwards compat for those that transition

shadowjonathan@tech.lgbt

@volpeon our living spaces are made for humans, i'd imagine it would make sense for any robots (to easily navigate it) to also be like that, until we design our spaces for humans and robots

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@volpeon Tachikomas when?

johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip is a Thermomix a kitchen robot...?

lykrast@eldritch.cafe

@volpeon I remember one story where that was a ploint point, but in the scene that it was an ancient robot that was still working, and so the question is "why the fuck does this battle robot look so much like a human? with parts modeled that a battle robot wouldn't need"

uh unfortunately still waiting on the next chapter of that so...

alina@girldick.gay

@ShadowJonathan @volpeon have you ever tried to jerk off to a non human shaped robot. think of r2d2 porn. yeah you dont want that right, thought so

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@volpeon Yeah, but it makes it a lot easier to raise money from techbros.

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@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip unimaginative? for sure
unnecessarily complicated? absolutely, but that's just more fun

I think humanoid robots are a cool idea in fiction for every reason other than their shape, and a fun engineering problem to solve in reality, but neither are practical, that's for sure

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@volpeon it truly feels like they do it not because it's functional, but to sell a human slave fantasy

lispi314@udongein.xyz

@volpeon A monitor/display for a face is considerably more versatile than a flexible sheet of polymer.

faoluin@chitter.xyz

@volpeon One day we will have screechy foxbots. One day.

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Making robots look like humans feels pretty unimaginative to me.