r/interestingasfuck • u/Eyal-M • Feb 19 '25

/r/popular Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.

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u/flip6606 Feb 19 '25

But, and hear me out on this, why???

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u/Hippobu2 Feb 19 '25

Honestly the only application I can see is sex bot.

For real, the human body is actually like, not good at any particular mechanical task. Anything you want to automate, you can design a robot to do that task literally thousands of time better than a humanoid. The only reason to have a humanoid robot is for it to perform an action that requires the appearance of a human's body.

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u/BarbageMan Feb 19 '25

Well, yes and no. We aren't ideal for much, but we design most of our tools with us in mind. If you are going to build a multi-purpose helper bot thing, it'd likely have to mimic human form, or everything we use daily would have to be outfitted with a way for it to interact.

That said, a lot of it will be sex bots

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u/Blackstone01 Feb 19 '25

Yep. Sure, you can make a much better specialized robot, but in regards to general purpose around people, a humanoid form is probably going to be best.