Robots Can Have Skin Now | SciShow News

Designing skin for robots was out of reach for a long time, but last week, scientists announced they successfully made the first autonomous robot with full-body skin!

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[ijustreallylikeramenokay]

"am I fired?" asks the owner of scishow

[talyanehemia]

I had NO IDEA how much I needed rapping Hank in my life, but here we are now

[joshuabeelen]

“Am I fired?” Got an uncharacteristically loud belly laugh out of me.

[marthak]

IEEE is normally pronounced I-triple-E, at least by Electrical and Electronic Engineers.

[rubixloverful]

Humans: we fear over-realistic robots
Also humans: let's give them skin!!

[sweepingtime]

More like ‘sorting humans based on their squishiness’.

[HECKproductions]

hank: "[...] and giving people hugs"
me: *puts rope away * "not today"

[sebastianelytron]

Why was the robot arrested?




He was charged with battery.

[davetoms]

When the boss asks "Am I fired?" you know you're doing something right.

[lamdelmundo]

"Cybernetic organism. Living tissue over metal..."
*sees another robot
"I'll be back."

[glenngriffon]

i never thought i'd hear Hank rap.


And sheesh that was the whitest rapping i've ever heard.

[gwyn.]

“What is my purpose?”

“You help wank.”

“Oh my god.”

[mglenadel]

It makes sense for the corals to take their time to bounce back to life. Wait for the worst to pass before you get up again.

[thatmaia]

Wisconsin! Cheese! Psychology! Feels like this rap was made for me.

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

The robots are just flexing on everyone who doesn't have skin

[pretendperfection]

He’s a beatboxer.

Oh. I feel the flow.

Oh my god perfection. So amazing.

[pangolothian]

That little bit at the end made me smile. :D

[Sciencerely]

In my opinion, the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics are currently experiencing unprecedented progresses. Only this year, I read about an algorithm called GPT-2 which was trained on roughly 8 million web pages to write a fictional scientific article about the discovery of unicorns. I would really love to make a video about this but if you have time, read the article online it's amazing (it says for example "The scientist named the population, after their distinctive horn, Ovid’s Unicorn. These four-horned, silver-white unicorns were previously unknown to science”)! Although I'm not an expert in AI, feel free to ask anything about the human body or stem cells, since I am conducting research there!

[AnotherNerdyPerson]

"You're dead!"
"Ah, tis but a scratch!"

[xevira]

Did you want Terminators? This is how you get Terminators.