{"id":1223610,"date":"2025-02-21T17:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223610"},"modified":"2025-02-21T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T22:20:13","slug":"can-somebody-let-this-robot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223610","title":{"rendered":"Can somebody let this robot down?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7dhwFcuUn0\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H7dhwFcuUn0\">this YouTube video<\/a> of Clone Robotics&#8217; &#8220;Protoclone&#8221; is here all the same.<\/p>\n<p>The Protoclone appears to be a prototype version of the &#8220;Clone&#8221; robot the aptly named Clone Robotics is working to build. The video shows the Protoclone flexing its arms and legs, with visible artificial muscle fibers moving underneath its white &#8220;skin.&#8221; Based on Clone Robotic&#8217;s video description, the impressive part here is that fact that the Protoclone has &#8220;over 200 degrees of freedom, over 1,000 Myofibers, and over 200 sensors,&#8221; and also that the robot is &#8220;faceless,&#8221; for some reason.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"3ff408dd9e9746c88c629493fc45da16\">\n<div style=\"left:0;width:100%;height:0;position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H7dhwFcuUn0?rel=0\" style=\"top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;border:0;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" data-embed-domain=\"www.youtube.com\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The end goal for the startup is to build an android that&#8217;s anatomically correct, with synthetic nervous, skeletal, muscular and vascular systems powering its movement. The &#8220;Myofibers&#8221; included in the Protoclone are a custom Clone Robotics creation with &#8220;the desirable qualities of mammalian skeletal muscle.&#8221; For the eventual Clone robot&#8217;s purposes, those qualities are the ability to &#8220;respond in less than 50 ms with a bigger than 30 percent unloaded contraction&#8221; and &#8220;at least a kilogram of contraction force for a single, three gram muscle fiber,&#8221; <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/clonerobotics.com\/android\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/clonerobotics.com\/android\">according to Clone Robotics&#8217; website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That the Protoclone is dangling in the video rather than roaming around of its own accord is a reflection of its prototype nature. Robots are often hung or propped up with a support arm until they can support their own body weight, something that can be hard to achieve without all of the right materials.<\/p>\n<p>Clone Robotics is not unique in pursuing a human-like robot that could theoretically replace human workers. <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.figure.ai\/\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.figure.ai\/\">Figure<\/a> is exploring a similar idea, minus the muscles. Tesla started off on the wrong foot with<a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tesla-bot-humanoid-robot-033635103.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tesla-bot-humanoid-robot-033635103.html\"> a person in a spandex suit<\/a>, but it&#8217;s <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/transportation\/tesla-unveils-its-cybercab-robotaxi-032132013.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/transportation\/tesla-unveils-its-cybercab-robotaxi-032132013.html\">serious about robots<\/a>, too. Even the largest of tech companies have turned their attention to robots: Both <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/meta-is-reportedly-working-on-humanoid-robots-that-help-with-chores-192453416.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/meta-is-reportedly-working-on-humanoid-robots-that-help-with-chores-192453416.html\">Meta<\/a> and <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:7;pos:1\" class=\"no-affiliate-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apple-is-developing-personal-robots-for-your-home-bloomberg-says-044254029.html\" data-original-link=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/apple-is-developing-personal-robots-for-your-home-bloomberg-says-044254029.html\">Apple<\/a> are reportedly exploring robotics as a future product category. It&#8217;s fair to say Clone Robotics is winning when it comes to posting videos of muscular robots, though.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/science\/can-somebody-let-this-robot-down-222011506.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not clear that anyone was asking for a company to build a muscular, sinewy robot or to see a video of it dangling, helpless from a hook, but life is full of surprises and this YouTube video of Clone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1223610\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}