Edit: Direct YouTube link.
Gilligan’s Island did it first.
What’s the definition of humanoid robot? It looks cool and all, but it still rides around on wheels…
Yeah, while there’s surely some engineering that went into this, it’s not exactly impressive to watch a machine designed to do one thing and only one thing successfully do the thing it was designed to do. This isn’t a general purpose humanoid robot displaying adaptability and what we might call skill, this is… a machine for making baskets. On sticks. Sticks with wheels.
Add to it that this is a Guinness world record, so they just shelled out for the publicity and thats literally all they had to do (there’s no competition, Guinness will award them a [carefully phrased] world record no matter what), and its hard to get hyped about it.
I started watching the video, which begins with the robot taking the shot. And then it cuts out before the ball goes through the hoop. Wtf. I’m not wasting my time watching the rest of this PR piece if they’re going to play with my emotions like this.
I want to hear the discussion they had when someone said “let’s make it black”.
Futurology
Uses a measurement in the headline that’s so outdated, it means nothing to 97% of people 😂
“means nothing” is quite the overstatement, i think most people who don’t use it have a general idea of approximately how much a foot is.
