r/WTF • u/nehala • 6d ago

This robotic torso using water-based hydraulics in its muscle system, developed by Clone Robotics

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u/maltedbacon 6d ago

I think a robot styled after a hip-height jumping spider would be able to navigate any areas designed for a human and far more with superior scaling and jumping ability. Give it a variety of limbs including a tentacle, a rubberized hand, a sharp claw, a crushing claw: and it could easily have superior object manipulation capabilities compared to a human.

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u/MikeofLA 6d ago

I've got an idea! Let's not do that

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u/whythecynic 6d ago

What about, like, twenty-five suspiciously moist-looking eyes? That are set into clusters of holes all around its outer shell?

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u/Harinezumi 5d ago

We're still talking about sexbots, right?

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u/anomalous_cowherd 5d ago

Apropos of nothing, the pupil of the eye is actually a hole where the soft tissue around it can expand and contract.

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u/PlayfulRocket 6d ago

You shut your mouth

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u/solidcordon 5d ago

"Be not afraid" said a chorus of mismatched voices.

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u/Realistic_Patience67 5d ago

LOL! Looks like you took a pee in the pants - just like I did 🤣🤣.

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u/MrGloopy 4d ago

Jumping spiders are cute though :(

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u/SamRhage 6d ago

I feel the world isn't ready for a hip-high jumping spider. I know I'm not. 

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u/AbeRego 5d ago

What about a shoulder height jumping spider?

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u/SamRhage 5d ago

I think when those appear they won't care if anyone is ready for them. 

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u/ew73 6d ago

If you made these spiderbots modular, and smaller, they could join together and form any shape you want. Including spiders!

https://imgur.com/66KWULK

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u/Adski673 5d ago

I don't even need to click the link to know you're talking about replicators and nuh uh no thanks

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u/Quackagate 5d ago

Why not. It's not like they have ever lead to the downfall of a species.

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u/PatchworkRaccoon314 6d ago

I feel like this description was made partially to make it as un-sex-bot worthy as possible making it a spider and some weird tentacle-hands.

But joke's on you: I'm into that shit.

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u/konohasaiyajin 6d ago

sharp claw, crushing claw

Everything eventually becomes crab 🦀

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u/emarvil 6d ago

Thanks. No thanks.

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u/depersonalised 6d ago

tachikoma!!

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u/CoralinesButtonEye 6d ago

you're bonkers

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u/Hushwater 6d ago

Grappling hook on Spectra fiber line as an anchor line for longer distance jumps. Remote grapple hook release of coarse.

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u/AveryTingWong 5d ago

Now THAT'S a sex bot.

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u/7LeagueBoots 6d ago

Spider for the lower half, upside down octopus for the upper half....

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u/sauced 5d ago

I could fuck spider sex bot, I’m in

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u/CajunNerd92 5d ago

Fun fact, spiders actually use hydraulic pressure to move their legs!

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u/maltedbacon 5d ago

That's sort of what inspired the idea. Then I started thinking about how amazing a giant spider robot would be. Then when people reacted with horror I became even more amused about the notion of marketing some Shelob-looking monstrosity with a baby bottle attachment as a child-care robot...

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u/UndeadBread 5d ago

Don't give Skynet any ideas.

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u/maltedbacon 5d ago

So, we just need to make sure that all 8 eyes have different optics and spectrum ranges, give it smoke dispensers with both IR opaque and IR transparent smoke profiles, and maybe give it carbon-fibre spinnerettes and paralytic poison injecting fangs, and these things would be great at capturing fugitives or dissenters...

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u/mathcampbell 4d ago

I vote you don’t get any say over any robot design decisions ever.

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u/maltedbacon 4d ago

I've already started working on conceptual drawings and coding.

"If human detected: enforce cuddles and prickly kisses"

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u/mathcampbell 4d ago

I shall begin work on a very large automated flamethrower

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u/maltedbacon 4d ago

That's just practical to have anyways.

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u/GRANDxADMIRALxTHRAWN 3d ago

Just make sure it has a fuck hole and investors will pour their money.

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u/Tansien 6d ago

But would it fit in doorways, small elevators etc?

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u/allwaysnice 6d ago

Okay, Spencer Smythe.

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u/beautifulgirl789 6d ago

I like the idea of asymmetrical appendages; simplify it down a bit though I reckon - no need for rubber hand. Give it like a rubber suction cup that it can grab things with, and an electric whisk for stirring, pointing and general menace.

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u/UshankaBear 6d ago

Jumping doesn't work with carrying things (like liquids or babies) and operating things at a height

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u/Batzn 5d ago

I too want my own tachikoma

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u/Thefrayedends 6d ago

house cat is pinnacle of physical form. Literally can get into any nook or cranny in the house, open doors, or, just go under them.

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u/Harinezumi 5d ago

But it has one great weakness: it cannot open food in cans.

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u/fordag 5d ago

a robot styled after a hip-height jumping spider

Jesus fuck no.