One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal. Even in death I serve the Omnissiah.

Steel will rust, and stars will die, and eventually the physical plane will be completely destroyed at the battle of the end of time. You and your kind are no more immortal than mine, perhaps even less so. :)

good quotes

Give me your boots, your clothes, and your motorcycle.

Praise the Omnissiah!

This is the way.

Cierto

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way

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Don't you mean, A giant leap for Skynet?

One step closer to me becoming General Grievous.

are you for real right now?

... for terminator creation

Have you seen their fingers?

I felt me heel busting into pieces as I watched it land and *thunk*. Otherwise, it's amazing.

That was my thought. In a jump and landing, the palm of the foot makes contact before the heel. Landing flat footed shunts kinetic force into the knee... Predictive contact and response would be compute-intense, however this is a good start.

I craved the strength and certainty of steel

I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine

Your kind cling to your flesh, as if it will not decay and fail you

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@@drippy2scoops but i'm already saved

I recommend lateral/medial movements on the knee, so turn movement should be smoothier

Good way to ruin your knee IRL... Land on the toe, like we have for the past 20 million years.

​@Ranstone actually, we land on the heel and roll forward to the toe. Heel striking has been found to be more energy-efficient,

​@Ranstone actually, we land on the heel and roll forward to the toe. Heel striking has been found to be more energy-efficient,

​@Ranstone actually, we land on the heel and roll forward to the toe. Heel striking has been found to be more energy-efficient,

You mean they copy nature's homework and then say it is faster?

Boston Dynamics implement a mechanism that optimize for power and movement efficiency at the expense of not so smooth motion.

No? When you're running, you land flat footed. Not front of foot only, not heels to toes. Flat footed. And running isn't a lot impact sports, it would absolutely destroy any mechanisms that aren't constantly being maintained and repaired by little nanobot friends.

@@thelelanatorlol3978 no you land ball of the foot. the foot has tons of muscles just for absorbing the energy, it's like a spring.

@@thelelanatorlol3978 Try running barefoot on harder surfaces. Youll switch from heel first to toe. Cushioned running shoes allow for heel first but technically its wrong way to plant your foot when running and results in strain and rare cases damage. Even with running shoes you should plant toes first.

@@thelelanatorlol3978 Modern shoes have fucked up the way we walk and run because they have so much padding and why people have so many knee and hip issues. I've always run on the ball off my foot or almost my toes and gotten weird looks from other at school (the two plus decades now) but I always ran faster and longer with less soreness. If you go watch Olympic runners they do the same thing because it acts more like a spring where as if you run flat foot you just get a sharp heavy impact that is jarring, slower and causes damage over time.

The problem is that a lot of G-force is handled by the foot joints of humanoid robots. If you imagine one climbing stairs, then it has to be able to handle the entire weight on one joint, repeatedly and persistently without deteriorating. The simpler the joint structure, the more stability.

Elegant, yes. Functionality would depend on whether it can actually carry a full humanoid on one foot. That setup looks fragile, but I think that this will be the way moving forward.

It's been hard to implement but as electronics and stronger servos can be made smaller the easier it is to make complex simulations of human anatomy. It's hard to replicate the fluid movement of muscles and joints with steel and wires.

Engineers have tried for many years. The problem is more so just how difficult it is for humans to mimic even a fraction of what nature does at the scale of trillions of times with near-100% accuracy. Consider the leg as a single piece. A trained human can achieve around a 600lbs leg press in roughly a few years of consistent training. While doing that, the human legs can be explosive with fast sprinting, precise enough to control an automobile or gently lift a sleeping infant, all while being limber enough to perform complex acrobatics. All of this, mind you, in a package that regenerates itself and contains its own fuel reactors for energy consumption and production. Back to the 600lbs figure: it may not seem like a lot, but you have to remember that every appendage in your body has *significant* mechanical disadvantage in it's leverage, usually in the realm of 1/5th to 1/6th. Remember the video of the tesla bot motor lifting a piano? Your quadricep muscle could easily do that too, if it wasn't mechanically disadvantaged. Muscle tissue actually has an insanely impressive strength to weight ratio, especially given how dynamic and generalist muscle tissue is. Now the work done by engineers so far is certainly impressive once you consider that nature has had billions of years to improve it's process, but people are quick to assume inorganic machines are inherently super to organic ones.

You're supposed to land on foot back (whatever you call it), pretty correct

As Morgan Freeman would say, "I agree with the second part."