Previously, I wrote about humanoid robots and their limited usefulness. Today, I’d like to talk about functional robots… the ones that don’t look like us but do a good job.
Let’s get the ugliest part of this out of here: humanoid robots are the worst possible path we can take. Despite Hollywood’s love of anthropomorphized animatronics, there are many deficiencies in human-shaped and look-alike robots; it would take a treatise to explain why we should move away from them. Let’s try the two most significant problems.
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