Gilligan's Island did it first.
this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2024
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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.
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 want to hear the discussion they had when someone said "let's make it black".
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Uses a measurement in the headline that's so outdated, it means nothing to 97% of people 😂
Added conversion in the title :)
"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.
I have two
I genuinely don't know what you're saying
That'll be the cuts to your education budgets
Ha. I still have no idea what you meant. Are you complaining about "feet" as a unit of measurement? I thought the UK still uses feet in their unholy mishmash of imperial, metric, and wherever "stone" as a unit of weight came from.