• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    Thanks for the Adams Family reference, I have no ability to imagine a disembodied hand or look at the OG image.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    I’m 100% on board with this.

    Shit, I’d trade one of my hands for this.

    Damn the consequences! This is all of my wildest dreams come true! I never even knew that this was what ALL of this has been for!

    Let’s fucking go!

  • Røøk@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    They could have even said “that thing from the Adams Family” and not been wrong. This is just purposely obtuse

  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    They need to run this thing through the genetic algorithms a bit longer, that shuffle is pretty janky. It could be really impressive if the movement were a bunch smoother. But as it is, it moves like a windup toy.

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      5 hours ago

      I think it is because it is so heavy in the rear end and cannot move the back ‘legs’ effectively without falling backwards. Maybe it could walk on three fingers and shift the mass forward.

  • bluelander@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    That little guy? Its name was Thing. Am I so old that only I remember? Was it too hard for them to look that one up?

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    It’s fully autonomous? (I did not read TFA.) That’s… maybe impressive?

    My favourite differently abled social media influencer person can do this. She lost both of her arms as a child, so, as a young child, she was made the face of a company called Open Bionics as they partnered with the makers of the video game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, in which people replace perfectly good limbs with mechanical ones, and the social fallout from that. So this adorable little five or six year old girl got these cool robotic arms that were black and gold, themed after the video game. Now she’s an adult, and the arms have gotten a bit more advanced. Such that she can detach the hand and control it remotely.

    Here she is on Good Morning Britain, a year ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXbqqeUU7js

  • muelltonne@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    There really is some futuristic novel hidden there: Robotic hands being dropped by drones over enemy facilities. Sneaking in, pressing buttons to sabotage production or to launch vehicles. People getting murdered in their sleep by robotic hands choking them.

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      5 hours ago

      murdered in their sleep by robotic hands choking them

      Naw, the bird finger should have a stinger loaded with some kind of ultra-potent toxin, like a deranged hand-scorpion hybrid. Mwahahahaha.

  • tquid@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Useless until it can keep the middle finger in the air so it looks like a little horsie.

    Also must have an articulable palm so it can palm something and pretend to poop