Couldn't find a picture of this so here's the trailer - Moon robot! Seriously watch this film if you haven't already.
Wall-e and Eve
Mega Robot - (best bit's the facial expressions)
Hank
Helper
Another nameless one
And another
There was another really cool bit of cg art but I seem to have lost it. I'll ask Rhys next time I see him.
I actually dragged Liz out to watch Moon and I do not regret it, that movie fills me with the warmest of feels. The Moon's emotes fit with what I was babbling about earlier!
ReplyDeleteDo human mechanical hands on robots wig you out like they do me, they make me think of crushed windpipes.
As far as I know we've yet to create a realistic mechanical hand, the kind-of-realistic ones on androids always seem to have been put on as an afterthought and are about as effective as spades, where as the ones that actually work are far from realistic and even though they can pick things up they still lack the dexterity and coordination of people hands. I don't get creeped out by them so much as disappointed.
DeleteHave you seen Robonaut's hands? they are spindly compared to his bulky arms. Robonaut is the exception, I find it hard to be creeped out by Robonaut because Robonaut loves me and space.
DeleteI think artificial limbs have made some cool strides with this. The more high end ones can do all sorts of delicate finger tasks like tying shoe laces and unscrewing bottles! The problem robots have is less the hand technology itself and more the robots being able to co-ordinate themselves - it's super difficult with all the possible variables involved.
DeleteI like it when robots have delicate people hands!
ReplyDeleteyeah i like delicate hands, i think it's when they are meaty and oversized (like workman's gloves?) to the rest of them? these are the only reasons you would give robots hands like that:
Deleteincreased hold/grip (FOR CRUSHING HUMAN THROATS)
stronger punch (FOR PUNCHING ME IN THE GUT)
NOTHING ELSE