Recent content by Bohandas

Maybe the robot also filters the air? EDIT: Like seriously, the robot might double as a respirator under certain conditions

Yeah, the massage robot definitely doesn't need to be person shaped. As shown by the many existing functional massage robots that aren't What about regulatory capture? And moral panics? And graft? edit: and ultranationalism Yeah, but for that wouldn't some kind of heated robot teddy bear be as...

I'm surprised bit I must admit that those are actually good ideas, particularly 2, 4, and 5. Not so much 3; I still feel that some kind of cartoony design would be better for general interaction

I take exception to this, but from a pro-technology stance. The human form isn't actually good for anything. There's nothing something human-shaped can do that a device with a shape specifically designed for that task can't do better. John Henry is just a fairy tale. Even if the task in...

Or at least people who are already invested in that pyramid scheme have convinced you its a problem

While I agree that the concern is overblown I see where they're coming from. I think the issue is less that there's such a big potential for misuse and more that there aren't any positive uses for this technology. The only possible non-sexual use for a humanoid robot is to impersonate someone...

Digital cameras may have been invented in '75 but they didn't even start to see common use until at earliest the late 90's, and didn't really come into their own until, yes, the smartphone era. Up until then everything was on film

Regarding Solo, my main takeaway from it was that repulsorlift technology is kind of garbage. It was pretty strongly implied that it doesn't work over water. And yet it still manages to mess up Leia's backstory anyway. It's pretty clear in New Hope that she was supposed to be undercover and...

You missed the biggest question: If the droids all share a brain in the control ship, why do they need to talk to each other? It can't even be justified from a doylist angle because the droids don't say anything expository

People just have to stop trusting photos. We didn't have photography until 1822 and we didn't have convenient photography until 1999. They are not essential.

If anything it seems like that concept would fit Steampunk more, given that the era its meant to emulate had things like the East India Company going on.

I don't know why people keep trying to make robots that walk on two legs. Just make a spider bot! It's more stable!

Like the others, I can only think of one thing this could possibly be useful for

Ymirjordh- After the end of the universe an immortal being floats in the void. He bleeds himself. Over millennia his shed blood forms a planet

BTW Kurzgesagt is pretty good in general if you even need inspiration for cosmic horror