How to train your robot: Wear a tiny one in a baby carrier Before humanoid robots walk among us, they'll be operated remotely, in part to gather the training data to develop Vision-Language-Action Models for autonomous, nonlethal bipedal ambulation. There are already various approaches to teleoperation, ranging from computers linked to augmented reality accessories and game …
We wonder why birthrates are dropping like crazy in the western world.
Democratised tech, yes, all very noble and of course I applaud it but we do have a serious problem with couples unable to afford to have kids and promoting tech as some sort of substitute baby isn't going to help much.
Especially as I know several people who built these rigs over 20 years ago.
"Brian Damage" was controlled this way in the BBC TV series Mechanoids.
Hard to Google these days, it's almost vanished from the Internet. I wonder whether Frog Twissell is still making stuff.
When I saw the video I thought not "CHILD" but "Jeff Dunham". Anyone familiar with the name will know him as a extremely clever ventriloquist who can bring all sorts of things to life using nothing more than some very clever manipulation of hand and voice and the power of suggestion. An example of his work is here:-
https://youtu.be/GBvfiCdk-jc?si=6rDYtEFsA6GAWIha
Obviously its possible to remotely control these puppets. The ventriloquist won't because a big part of the illusion is the conversation, both verbal and non-verbal.
Yes; he's quite good.
BTW, little tip: in most cases you can leave everything out after a question mark in a URL, that's usually tracking. So the URL would then be just https://youtu.be/GBvfiCdk-jc. Always check if it still works (some miscreants now check), but it's safer.
