45 year old writing about a 32 year old.

Enough! With the four door coupes. I need the return of two door sedans.

"We needed to give a warehouse robot a head so it could see."

Brother you can wirelessly connect every robot to a data network that has mountains of information on the world around them provided by omniscient external sensors mounted throughout the space.

C. Eames' statement that design is addressing needs and constraints is axiomatic because people who engage in design understand it implicitly. The idea that "convergent evolution" necessitates Homo sapiens-like robots for human labor feels like it skips critical analyses of what you're trying to do.

From Vincent's article, this is an odd thing to assert when robots intended for replacing human labor don't need to do many the things humans do (or evolved through doing): grow from infancy, reproduce, be a contiguous corporeal entity. You're also not building robots out of flesh, bone, and blood.

It's actually pretty cool to be able to remotely control a robot and could be useful for dangerous work (bomb squad, radioactive materials, etc), but it's wasted on pretending AI is real.

if you want an overview of where humanoid robots are at right now — what's hype and what's real — then check out my long read for @harpers.bsky.social. here's me teleopping a humanoid, and yes i was told MANY times "do not take off the headset until you've disconnected"

harpers.org/archive/2025...

Roboticists are doing amazing work but you're not going to see much of it in the news because companies are obsessed with milking cash out of investors who shit their pants when a robot with a well-developed face plays a canned emotional expression or a teleoperator makes them move like a human.

I love Honda hatchbacks

As frustrating as it is to see politicians not push through negative public sentiment, it's important to realize that at a cultural level, Americans broadly do not care about pedestrians and cyclists being killed by cars. It's hard for elected officials to overcome that level of callous selfishness.

Look at any US news article about cyclists killed by cars. Unless it's on a cycling forum you'll invariably find many, if not most, comments are disparaging those who were killed or cyclists in general. It's culturally acceptable to wish for the deaths of people who cause traffic inconvenience.

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