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I'm working on a "similar" project
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What is your project's goal? What have you done so far?
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some of your points have inspired some considerations
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Which points?
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What is the specific driver for the "robot" to look / pass for a human
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Many reasons: so it can go shopping or talk to people without them realizing it's a robot and thereby stay under the radar and not get thrown out of stores or w/e. Also by talking to people and passing for human, that will be funny to observe and fun to see how long it takes them to realize it. I also find the human form beautiful and functional. I find the design of it to be excellent and most likely perfect. We were created in God's image so I think our design must necessarily be top notch and without flaw generally speaking.
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why constrain your design to mimikry of a "flawed" design
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It's perfect so I reject the premise of this question. Not to mention any deviation from exactly human appearance would be abominable. A baby arm growing out the side of a face: nightmare fuel. No thanks. I'll stick to the natural beauty aesthetics of a human. Our design has beautiful symmetry, balance, and is very capable of all manner of things. A true masterpiece.
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the biggest (understatement) hurdle you will have is the "Brain"
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True. I started that part but am holding off until I get the arm and head sufficiently done to let the robot start building its own body and at that point in time I'll resume development of the "brain".
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are you looking to create an Android or an Automaton?
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It will be an android, not an automaton.
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there are lots of resources that you could follow to get the job done without - well - "reinventing the wheel"
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I'm well past the inspiration and ideas phase and in any case, there are no robots that have gotten full dexterity hands and silent operation and the motor+downgear setups that are fairly quiet are extremely costly so I'm going for low cost and full silent operation with full human level strength and dexterity and speed. Nobody has paved this path before me.
A note on definitions: a humanoid I separate into two categories: human passing humanoid and mech humanoid. I'm going for the former. Mech humanoids like Figure and Tesla bot and similar are a totally different beast from human passing humanoid robots. Very few are even attempting human passing humanoid robots. There are a huge set of design challenges that come with the human passing robot approach and mech humanoids do not have the same challenges and the approach to the engineering of mech humanoids has little to no cross over to human passing humanoids. They are completely different types of robots.