>>37920 Fair enough. But that seems a fairly exotic temp range to be managing for a complete novice at this. Perhaps we should start smol, grow big instead here, Anon? :^) >>37922 Neat! That's quite encouraging. I was beginning to wonder if it was going to be literally impossible for amateurs to build these things, given your post here : ( >>37919 ) (well, that and the fact there are [apparently] no commercial vendors of the things today [I would have expected dozens of them by now since the '50s]). But it looks like we can after all! Cheers, Grommet. :^)

>>37919 probably, but super critical co2 is 300+ times the atmosphere that periodically frags a chinese phd student.

>>37933 Good point.

Turn weaknesses into strengths: Batteries are quite heavy. So use them for counterweights in designs.

>>38276 Good idea, Anon. @Kiwi was promoting a 'swinging, inverted pendulum' counterweight balance system for natural bipedal gaits here on the board. Your idea of using the dense batteries for such a mass-as-pendulum is a good one. Cheers, GreerTech. :^)

>>38269 >new open source TTS This is not good enough. An AI waifu needs to learn what is funny. Somewhere between the line as we speak, your waifu chuckles because it was funny. What's the intonation of a person who speak when they are mad. What's the person sound like when they are explaining things. What's the person's voice sounds like when they are in sigh, hype and ect. All these intricate stage of feeling from what human sounds like when they speak, the AI waifu needs to learn all of these by herself before she can utter a word with a correct kind of tone. In other words, your waifu needs to train her emotion's data bank so that she can converse in more meaningful tones of utterance.

>>38285 https://decrypt.co/316008/ai-model-scream-hysterically-terror They're working on it. Not to say you can't work on it yourself, but rather it's not a deliberate choice to leave out emotion. Also, you can do some tricks just by changing settings. I got Galatea to sing just by slightly lowering her speed. >pic related A monotone voice can actually be cute

>>38286 >A monotone voice can actually be cute Yes but your waifu needs to be aware in realtime, what the kind of tone you give to her when she is listening to your voice as you speak so that she could reply you with correct vocal intonation.

>>38268 >>38285 >>38287 Lol. NYPA, Anon. OTOH, if you want to try solving this together with us here, that would be great! <---> I'm glad that you bring up this topic. I think we all instinctively know when a voice is uncanny-valley, but sometimes it can be hard to put into words. You've made a good start at it, Anon. Cheers. :^)

>>38269 >It's definitely a case of "easier said than done". This. But I must admit, there has been some remarkable progress in this arena. Our own @Robowaifudev did some great work on this a few years ago. My ineptitude with getting Python to work properly filtered me, but he was pulling off some real vocal magic type stuff -- all locally IIRC.

>>38219 Very nice work, Anon. Thanks & cheers. :^)

>>38192 >>38193 The thread I made on /g/ has been up for about a day now and I have posted a total of four links to the board on 4chan two in the /g/ thread one in a /diy/ thread and another in a /pol/ thread all of some relation to Robowaifus has it helped to drive some traffic to /robowaifu/

>>38250 Hello, Ginnungagap. Welcome! Please look around the board thoroughly while you're here. Thanks very much for your promotion of our board. I hope you and others there find some inspiration here to actually push this desire -- these robowaifus -- out into the realworld! Cheers, Anon. :^)

>>38250 Unfortunately, the /g/ one is already archived https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/105168159/rwg-robowaifu-general /diy/ might be better, they are a community that prides themselves on solving problems by themselves, and artbyrobot and peteblank already have posted on there. @Chobitsu peteblank called you a noob lmao

>>38264 Yeah, I'm actually kind of embarrassed we didn't post on /diy/ back in the day before I finally left off posting on 4cuck. Looking back now, it certainly seems like it would have been a better choice. OTOH, looking at the state of things there today, its clearly a very good thing we got the heck out of Dodge, and went to Freddit's place. I sure wish old Fred had better protection back then from (((influences))). *Sigh*. OTOOH, having that glownigger Watkins finally kill the place b/c (((reasons))) led to us finding our way here. I consider finding the Webring and forming a good relationship with Robi here as a sort of patron for /robowaifu/ has been a very-positive outcome! Seriously, its the Webring -- not 4cuck -- that is the best hope today for freedom of speech for Anons. >tl;dr Its comfy here. I'm glad we made our way here, and all this experience spurred me on to write BUMP as well. We're much more resilient against (((abuse))) today than we were in years past, I deem. <---> >called you a noob lmao Kek. Once we have truly opensauce robowaifus available for all comers to build on their own, I expect our friend's mood will lighten considerably! Cheers. :^)

>>38248 Interesting. I didn't know that, GreerTech. """he""" is definitely creepy AF, but if you wanted to enslave the entire human race for your father Satan, why not use blockchain tech? It's non-repudiation would be a highly-valuable biometric feature for the slave normalcattle goyim these demons dream of possessing. >tl;dr There is no political solution to this. You don't bargain with someone trying to put a sword at your neck.

>>38249 Agreed. It's definitely worrying.

>>38255 Ehh, cast your bread on the waters, GreerTech. :^) <---> Also, let us hope @Ribose is correct in his predictions, and they severely-underestimate the impact the Robowaifu Age will have against their plots & snares. (I expect they think they've already got this one in the bag as well.) They've got another think coming! Cheers. :^)

>>38256 Agreed. I'd like to think my creations do that, and that Galatea specifically can help bring in the Robowaifu age. PS: You know the Bible well, I had to look that up.

>>38258 >Agreed. I'd like to think my creations do that, and that Galatea specifically can help bring in the Robowaifu age. Of course! The loving spirit of her creator runs all through dear Galatea, Anon. Same as all the other good (robo)waifus created here & elsewhere. That hopeful spirit is literally the key to unlocking Anons-everywhere's power levels! Don't worry, she's already playing her part as an encouragement to us all! <Slow & steady is your key to success here, GreerTech. >tl;dr Once men realize we don't have to be in bondage to the evil systems devised against us any longer (chasing after women is the first-and-foremost of these debilitating practices... God never intended that sort of evil to exist within the male-female relationships -- they're here to be 'helpmeets' for us) then we can heal, stand up as real men, and together we can work towards something far greater than our individual selves here~ <---> But there's a tough row to hoe there ahead of us, so let's all just tighten our belts and Gambatte!! Cheers, Anon. :^) TWAGMI

Any'non know about these stair-climbing wheelchair designs? >related pic: https://trashchan.xyz/robowaifu/thread/26.html#52 >(cf. threads-related : >>2983, >>24744 )

3D printable animatronic eyes https://www.xda-developers.com/3d-printed-animatronic-eyes/

>>37277 Thanks, I think I remember a video from a few years ago about it. This strikes me as something that might hold up for a long time.

Tracing designs can be a fun way to learn and experiment.

>>38254 Interesting. I like where you're going with this, Kiwi. Cheers. :^)

>>37556 Roughly-speaking -- all else being equal -- yes. --- However, there's much more to the human soul than simply our brains! While we can simulate this missing sekrit sauce with an amalgam of various techniques for our robowaifus (and btw quite-satisfactorily for the average male or child, I deem), yet we'll never create that 'spark' of humanity that makes us, well, human. No natural means at our disposal can provide that invisible illumination that radiates from all real humans. >tl;dr Its complicated! :^)

Cortical Labs claims to have working computers of silicon + human neurons. https://corticallabs.com/cl1.html Where did these human neurons come from, I'm wondering?

>>38223 https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(22)00806-6? >Here, we aim to establish functional in vitro BNNs from embryonic rodent and human-induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) on high-density multielectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) to demonstrate that these neural cultures can exhibit biological intelligence—as evidenced by learning in a simulated gameplay environment to alter activity in an otherwise arbitrary manner—in real time >(hiPSCs) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_pluripotent_stem_cell >Induced pluripotent stem cells (also known as iPS cells or iPSCs) are a type of pluripotent stem cell that can be generated directly from a somatic cell. These are from adult donors.

>>38233 Have they solved the telomere issue? I see that iPSCs are claimed to foster telomerase production. From what I gather, any offspring created through these synthesized gametes would still suffer premature aging with lower life expectancy. Exciting progress overall. I can't help but wonder what the true solution to the telomere dilemma will be. Perhaps a customized bacterium which produces proteins needed to alleviate the myriad issues inherent to iPSCs derived clones? I trust your instincts more than my own on this subject so, I want to know your thoughts.

>>38241 Telomerase is not turned off in all of your cells. Telomerase is active in stem cells, T cells, and a couple others in rare cases.

>>37995 >>37996 >>37998 >>37999 This is something I was going to mention in the face thread >>9 on why I'd been thinking of making fixed, protruding lens "ayylmao-style" eyes instead of a screen face. My end goal would be a waifu with realistic human-like eyes, but working on a minimum-viable waifu means static eyes to reduce cost & complexity. (Not having a screen reduces complexity further, but I digress) Years ago I watched some documentaries on the "starchild skull" although I can no longer find the exact clips, the people that analyzed the skull (and didn't believe it was just caused by hydrocephalus) made several interesting comments about the eye sockets. There were no sinuses around the eye sockets, the holes in the eye sockets where the optic nerves pass though were much closer together and nearly at the tear ducts, and the eye sockets themselves were way too shallow and oddly-shaped. But assuming that the eyes weren't actually deformed in any way, they reverse-engineered an eye shape based on the socket, and ended up with an eye with no blind spot, barely enough room for the eyes to move except to saccade, and lenses that bulge out in a somewhat conical shape, resulting in a very deep focus, so almost everything in view to be in focus. Eye designed like this throw a few depth perception cues completely out the window. But they also seem like they'd be simpler for the brain to process. Everything is in focus means you don't need to look directly at something to get fine details like text, and no mental filling in of the gap where the blind spot is, and coordinating eye movement may have a little trade-off with needing slightly better control over head stability. Biologically it seems feasible, but technologically it's just a fixed pair of cameras with fisheye lenses. It seems like the human eye makes the brain do a lot of shortcuts and make assumptions because of how shitty the eye is, but perhaps current image processing AI is just so focused on details that the ~30 Megapixel equivalent to the human eye is just too much to process.

This is a great conversation going on here, but can we please move it to the Vision thread ( >>97 )? We're all ** derailing the Mathematics/Physics thread at this stage now, I think. Open to other viewpoints on this however (since the geometrical aspects are partly-related to a degree). I just think this topic is primarily vision-related, and will be hard to find this conversation ITT in two years from now! :^) --- ** I'm not referring to posts like ( >>38028 ), which clearly are related ITT.

>>38230 Mixing in a little truth in hopes to leave your niggerpills & well-poisoning laying around behind you isn't going to work here, friend. Your insulting, BS post will be baleeted in ~3days' time, out of respect for Anons here. Either stop being a (drunken, likely) a*rsehole, or find yourself banned (again). <---> >muh_maths Yes, we're aware here its going to take maths. And specifically, maths that runs on a computer -- ie, code. There's at least one freely-available C language implementation of a Mobile Inverted Pendulum (MIP) solution that I've linked elsewhere on the board (the eduMIP; and that tied directly to operating a robotics-oriented, SBC hardware solution [the BeagleBone Blue]). Do you know of any others? That's what could be helpful to us all here. Specifically we need one that follows the bipedal humanoid form, and not just a balancing, wheeled-base unit. <---> As you rightly point out, a (necessary) "spinal column" (or similar) is part of the solution needed. And most of our designs for a waifu also include a head. This 'thrown weight' of the head at the end of that multi-nodal complex lever (the spine) is indeed an interesting kinematics problem even were it hard-mounted just to a tabletop. Throw in the fact that its instead mounted to a hips structure; and that 'mounted' atop a bipedal, multi-nodal pair of complex levers (the legs/knees/ankles/feet/toes complexes); and you have quite a fun problemspace to work! Her having arms & hands might be nice, too. :DD And don't forget to manage path-planning; accounting for secondary-animations mass/inertia -dynamics; multi-mode (walking, running, jumping, 'swooping'[as in dance], etc.) gaits; oh, and the body language too (don't forget that part, please)! And all running smoothly & properly -- moving in the realworld via actuators/springy tensegrity dynamics/&tc! >tl;dr Why not get started on it all today, peteblank!? I'm personally looking forward to enjoying the Waltz with my robowaifus thereafter. I'm sure we'd all be quite grateful if you, yourself, solved this big problem for us here! Cheers, Anon. :^)

>>38234 Not to mention the perfectly tuned software feedback for balancing and foot sensation, as well as visual terrain analysis.

>>38238 Yes, I didn't make mention of all the visual and other datatype overlays & analysis, or of all the sensorimotor-esque sensor fusion feedback loops (PID, etc) needed. Not to mention all the concerns for her human Master's privacy, safety, & security needs at a more /meta level. This is a massive design & engineering undertaking. If the baste Chinese can actually release these at a commercial scale to the public for just US$16K, it will be a breakthrough. And we here need to go much-further & cheaper-still than that!! :^) FORWARD

>>38153 Good advices, Ribose. Of course, the trick is unveiling their deceptions and seeing through to their inherent evil intents against Anons. >lolcow hunters ESPECIALLY LULZY given the fact our home is literally called Alogs.Space -- home of /cow/ !! :DD >fun fact: we were very briefly attacked here by said group, until it was clear to everyone on the Webring we actually intend to pull this off in the end.

>>38153 >cuckservative moral fags These people will go after us because they think we are a threat to their value system and because when the waifubots start rolling out they will be an easier target than feminism (majority of the electorate are women) and the rainbow alphabet (powerful lobby) This group is either unable or unwilling to understand how we got to this point or offer any solution on how to fix the problem.

>>38176 >This group is either unable or unwilling to understand how we got to this point or offer any solution on how to fix the problem. Quite an insightful take, Anon. As a devout Christian, I've frequently rubbed shoulders with boomer-types typically in charge of running their churches -- and I've given precisely your point here lots of thought. They have a 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' type mentality (fair enough as far as it actually goes), and have AFAICT literally zero clue as to the absolutely abominable state of male-female relationships during Current Year. Particularly regarding the incredible obstacles for men in forming healthy & lasting bonds with young females, given the whorish state in general of the w*st today. This evil situation is by the design of the Globohomo kikes running our government$$$. Don't get me wrong, I love Christians as much or more than I love "typical" unbelievers (and I do); but this 'head-in-the-sand ostriching' is definitely a problem within my group in general. And it all boils down to literally just one thing IMO: refusal to acknowledge the inherent evils of (((feminism))). There is a flatout refusal to do anything to reign it in -- even within the walls of their own church buildings! (And this all while our Christian Bible explicitly directs such actions by our men to do just that.) Tale as old as time, I suppose: cucking out to women, despite God's grace not to. Simple as. *sigh* :/

>>38177 >As a devout Christian, I've frequently rubbed shoulders with boomer-types typically in charge of running their churches -- and I've given precisely your point here lots of thought. They have a 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' type mentality (fair enough as far as it actually goes), and have AFAICT literally zero clue as to the absolutely abominable state of male-female relationships during Current Year. Any idea on how to fix the problem? So many boomers see absolutely nothing wrong with no fault divorce or women in leadership positions while being treated with kids gloves. Is it even fixable?

>>38180 I wish I knew Anon. My heart tells me that yes, God himself will intervene and put an end to this crap. I personally hope & pray that robowaifus themselves will play some part in all that. Regardless... It's going to be a tumultuous era coming, before all is said and done. >tl;dr >Buckle in bros, it's gonna be a wild ride!!! :D

>>33001 > ( hands-related : >>33356)

Hands are solved. Non-issue. https://github.com/Red-Rabbit-Robotics/rx1_hand_hardware or build a dexhand https://www.youtube.com/shorts/L2v3AynQ2FA https://www.dexhand.org/ This is a solved issue, next.

Related: >>35641 >Functional evaluation of a non-assembly 3D-printed hand prosthesis > ... developed a new approach for the design and 3D printing of non-assembly active hand prostheses using inexpensive 3D printers working on the basis of material extrusion technology. This article describes the design of our novel 3D-printed hand prosthesis and also shows the mechanical and functional evaluation in view of its future use in developing countries. We have fabricated a hand prosthesis using 3D printing technology and a non-assembly design approach that reaches certain level of functionality. The mechanical resistance of critical parts, the mechanical performance, and the functionality of a non-assembly 3D-printed hand prosthesis were assessed. The mechanical configuration used in the hand prosthesis is able to withstand typical actuation forces delivered by prosthetic users. Moreover, the activation forces and the energy required for a closing cycle are considerably lower as compared to other body-powered prostheses. The non-assembly design achieved a comparable level of functionality with respect to other body-powered alternatives. We consider this prosthetic hand a valuable option for people with arm defects in developing countries. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0954411919874523

>>38171 POTD Really exciting to see his progress with this new print-in-place design. Thanks, Anon! Cheers. :^)

My "Solid Eyes" experiment shows you can have some of the aesthetic benefits of screen faces with a non-electronic solid design.

>>38111 I'd love to hear opinions about the designs

>>38113 Slightly different configuration of the screen eyes, more in-line with the face

>>38111 I see what you're saying. Since we are all pretty used to seeing dear Galatea with screen eyes, these flow right along with that same motif. They certainly resemble common eyewear more than the phone does. Do you plan to install cams in them or anything? >>38113 >>38114 I think I prefer the first example just slightly ATM -- but that could easily simply be my current mood! I might flip on that tomorrow, depending. Also, I expect the IRL experience for you with the screen right there with you is different for us merely seeing the images posted. >tl;dr I personally think this is something that you yourself can judge best, GreerTech. Cheers. :^)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yWrldOS6xBw >=== -rm uri fingerprinting