Embrace the freaks - not everything has to be a humanoid
In this post I talk about a few papers about non-standard robot embodiments I found a delight to learn about. If you’re a little fatigued by the current humanoid hype cycle like me and want a brief distraction then this is a read for you. Why the fatigue? There is a LOT of hype. So many startups that you can’t even comfortably fit all the companies on a map for China. Bank of America forecasts 3 billion clankers by 2060. We’re talking predictions of smartphone level of adoption. ...