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Nowadays, the robot's movements are smooth, its skin feels realistic, and it has a certain degree of intelligence. These are worthy of recognition, but I don't think it's enough to use the word "companion" yet. The robot can lift its legs, open and close, and sense touch. It understands you, accompanies you, and cares about you. They are completely two-dimensional things. I believe that there will definitely be robots that are difficult to distinguish between real and fake in the future, but from now on, there is still a long way to go.
Recently, a robot test by Chinese robot brand Vita Intelligence has attracted attention on overseas social platforms
. A bionic humanoid robot shows relatively flexible lower limb movement capabilities. It can complete a series of actions such as leg lifting, stretching, and opening and closing of legs under command control. The overall movements are coherent and demonstrate high joint flexibility.
According to reports, Weta Intelligence mainly focuses on the research and development of bionic humanoid robots. Its technical directions include high-degree-of-freedom motion architecture and full-body flexible tactile skin systems. In addition to allowing the robot to complete preset actions,
the related technology is also designed to allow the robot to sense contact with the outside world and make corresponding feedback based on different situations.
From the technical display point of view, this robot focuses on high-fidelity appearance contours and flexible limb joint control, aiming to reduce the stiffness of traditional robot movements and eliminate the uncanny valley effect. The body currently on display is in the working test platform verification stage. The head has not yet been installed. Multiple sets of signal transmission lines and connection terminals are exposed on the neck. The upper body is equipped with simulated hands folded on the chest.
Some netizens expressed excitement, "The smoothness of the movements is really good", "The flexible skin is a real breakthrough", "Can the character be customized in the future?" But more voices remained calm and even joked: "You can call me your girlfriend if you can raise your legs? Then is my sweeping robot my wife?" "Let it learn to charge itself first" "This thing is still a hundred ChatGPT away from 'understanding you'." Some netizens also raised concerns from an ethical perspective, believing that packaging robots as "companions" blurs the boundary between humans and machines. Some people say that even dolls and dolls can become someone's "wife", and robots are definitely more capable.
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