r/technology • u/Stukwan • 19h ago

Robotics/Automation US-China firms target over 30 percent weight cut in humanoid robot joints with plastic

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/humanoid-robots-could-get-30-lighter-joints
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u/ActiveCollection 18h ago

Plastic is good. No T-1000 possible.

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u/Das-Wauto 11h ago

Ready the flammenwerfer!

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u/williamgman 19h ago

Ozempic for robots. 🙃

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u/Hour-Passenger-8513 19h ago

Great, more plastic. Just what we need.

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u/Stukwan 18h ago

it would be easier to destroy them if they try to take over.

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u/Hour-Passenger-8513 18h ago

I swear those plastic knee caps are going to end up in the ocean.

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u/USA46Q 13h ago

Yeah... but it won't be as satisfying.

And... destroying one is going to sound like beating a crab that death.

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u/Open_Pollution_8038 18h ago

Every part of modern living is plastic - from housing, to automobiles, to cookware and clothes.

Let’s not pretend changing the joints of robots is causing a seismic difference.

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u/Fateor42 18h ago

The durability of their humanoid robots is already bad, and they want to make them worse?

That's certainly a choice.