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Re: Now THIS is a robot!

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Originally Posted by maxlobovsky
Random Spinning wheel and tire on the robots shoulders.

Sketches for the head conveniently have parts to make a face.

HUD looks way to nice looking to be real. For something not even near production, they surely would not spend so much effort on a nice pretty GUI counterpart to what the robot is actually doing.

White background for the arm test, though im not exactly sure how, yet, im sure its making the video editing easier. (you'd think as long as its rendered with an alpha channel or mono color background it'd be alright, but i guess not.)
To play the devil's advocate...

The wheels that are spinning aren't random. You'll notice they're on both the arms and the legs. In the interview, he claims they're actually fly-wheels, used to conserve enegry as the robot moves. They spin appropriately in the videos for this function.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with making sensors and whatnot to resemble the human face... I don't think that this has much weight at all on the plausability of this project.

The HUD... eh.. it's a little hokey.. but actually somewhat reasonable. From as best as I can tell, this guy is claiming to be somewhat freelance, and for the amount of stuff it's claiming to do.. you'd need a HUD with strong feedback like that.

And you could even argue the white background is added to improve visability for the viewer...

Again, not claiming this is real.. just saying it's not hopelessly fake.

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