I really don’t understand how every fictional robot, no matter how minor or simple, is usually 100x better than the real ones, with ugly shapes and uncanny valleys all around.
Fictional ones don’t have to be cheap to manufacture in the real world. The weirdest things can add to costs when you have to take into account the constraints of injection molding and press-fit assemblies (and that’s just for the outer shell).
We aren’t talking about floating ones like in “Wall-E”, even the one in the thumbnail could benefit from a better looking face without impacting functionality at all.
I really don’t understand how every fictional robot, no matter how minor or simple, is usually 100x better than the real ones, with ugly shapes and uncanny valleys all around.
Fictional ones don’t have to be cheap to manufacture in the real world. The weirdest things can add to costs when you have to take into account the constraints of injection molding and press-fit assemblies (and that’s just for the outer shell).
Fictional ones dosen’t need to actually work.
We aren’t talking about floating ones like in “Wall-E”, even the one in the thumbnail could benefit from a better looking face without impacting functionality at all.