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Post by zylonbane on Jun 10, 2011 1:53:31 GMT
If you aren't wearing shoes (what would a metal-footed robot need shoes for?) and are walking bipedally over an uneven surface, flexible toes are quite useful. But they're not flexible, which is the "craftsmanship" point. They're just a solid chunk of cast metal.
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Post by jayne on Jun 10, 2011 14:11:17 GMT
If you aren't wearing shoes (what would a metal-footed robot need shoes for?) and are walking bipedally over an uneven surface, flexible toes are quite useful. But they're not flexible, which is the "craftsmanship" point. They're just a solid chunk of cast metal. They look like a solid chunk of metal but he wouldn't be able to walk correctly if his feet didn't flex. He'd be better off with peg legs than with inflexible toes. His feet have the same kind of knuckles as his hands and they flex as expected. Maybe his hands and feet have some kind of cover to keep dirt out.
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Post by Dvandaemon on Jun 11, 2011 15:26:16 GMT
So, even though Frankenbot is essentially pieces of metal connected at the joints, Diego still put detail on the feet. Now that is craftsmanship. If you aren't wearing shoes (what would a metal-footed robot need shoes for?) and are walking bipedally over an uneven surface, flexible toes are quite useful. How useful? I once read a description of human evolution that basically attributed every significant and reliable difference between us and chimpanzees/gorillas to the mutation that created our strange hind feet. And I don't know if that is correct, but it does make sense. That is a good point, to bad Frankenbot doesn't appear to have any signs of being flexible in his feet. They seem to be like a carved statue
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Post by Polly Plummer on Jun 14, 2011 18:47:03 GMT
I wonder what he would think of his direct descendant, who we saw earlier. You mean the Igor bot?
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Post by smjjames on Jun 15, 2011 1:54:36 GMT
I wonder what he would think of his direct descendant, who we saw earlier. You mean the Igor bot? Yes.
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