Comments on: The USA’s Magnificent 7 Full-Size Humanoids

By: David

David — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:45:00 +0000

Dreaming with your head in the sand is probably comfortable until you suffocate and die.
If any of the participating Universities have learned enough, in say five years, to be able to contemplate designing and building their own humanoid I shall be very surprised. Until that happens they are just customers playing with new toys. Once upon a time it was Waveform Analysers, now its Humanoids. Still it should keep them in material for papers for a while. In the meantime Korea will be forging ahead with new designs.

By: Ashley from Canada

Ashley from Canada — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:02:00 +0000

There’s a lot of personal relationships in academia. People work on projects that they started at other universities, collaborate with people they knew in their undergrad days, and correspond with their old advisors. In a specialized field, there may be only one journal to publish in or one conference to go to, so everybody knows each other. If someone wants to follow in their dad’s footsteps, I wouldn’t call it nepotism. It’s a guy acquiring the robots he’s familiar with.

By: David

David — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 11:19:00 +0000

Oh ;-) good, nepotism works! Hence USA students will be able to change from simply lagging behind to learning to be operatives of other people’s humanoid robots. Great training for a customer base. Smart move by Korea.