if you’re also curious about robotics hardware and don’t know a lot (like me), i found the best place to start!!
this website has an interactive breakdown of literally every component in a humanoid: skeleton, motors, batteries, reducers, sensors, all the way to cost breakdowns and sourcing
you can click through real robots (like boston dynamics, apollo) and watch the spec sheets update live
also just a joy to use humanityslastmachine.com
Jul 3
day 3, learnt about embodied ai from an incredible blog post bc @FaizHilaly looked me up and down and said I didn’t know enough abt it
now i know embodied ai isn’t actually a software race. every humanoid collapses into one bottleneck: the actuator, and the actuator collapses into one material: the magnet. china makes 92% of them
the frontier of robotics is being decided by materials science, not software like i thought
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