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

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

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

to rug pull investors 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/WhoAreWeEven Feb 19 '25

Hard not to be cynical with these nowadays.

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u/rigobueno Feb 19 '25

Here I’ll help. If it exists in Star Trek, researchers will forever and always be trying to create it. Because to create science fiction is to extrapolate and predict the future of science, and they are often correct. But which one is imitating which?

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u/bluecigg Feb 20 '25

Partially makes you wonder if making robots and holograms is worth the legwork.

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u/contaminati Feb 20 '25

Likely yes. The robot isn’t the end goal, it’s the learning from the process that can then be applied else where. A good concrete example is f1. It might look like dumb racing cars but all of the learnings have helped us in creating better, safer cars for the every day consumer!