Purpose: - Spread the idea of robowaifus and help recruit talent to our cause - Control the framing of R/W devs, researchers and enthusiasts; we can be perceived as eccentric, charismatic techies rather than, say, disturbed and dangerous lone weirdos - Brainstorm fresh ideas that might arise from real-time live collaboration and debate - Get ahead of the 8 ball and shape the topic into something appealing yet transformative in a fun edgy way before journos and the like sully it with their stale neolib, postmod, westernized takes If this is something any of you (esp Board Owner and heavyweights) would consider participating in I'm inviting you to collaborate. Could be a once a week or twice a month deal, part time co-host or recurring guest is what I'm looking for. I've already run some pilot streams on my Twitch but might move to another platform if we want something more regular and official. --- >podcasts: • Are Robo Waifus the Future? (2023 Jan 26) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II70vRYprgw >=== -revamp OP

We have a problem. LLMs have caused total delusion and havoc in AI development. Claude Fable is many orders of magnitude compute away from a single bacterial cell and it is much less flexible under dynamic conditions. In truth, we are about as close to a true AGI as we were in the 1960s - we are in a modern messiah delusion. You can tell the real ones like Demis Hassabis always talk of LLMs with a certain level of spite, Lecun is more directly vocal but I don't see how JEPA is much of an improvement, it's still just an MLP with a fancy target state. So how do we break free from this paradigm? I truly want AGI so I'm honestly mad at how delusional and dishonest we are about these systems, even for highly structured information like code these systems are still at about "competent normie with dysfunctional hippocampus" level. At least we are expanding our compute infra, but our entire species is still insanely compute poor compared to a puddle of shitty water.

This thread is for discussing potential robowaifu startups, everything required to make them work, and pitfalls to avoid when operating. Potential topics to discuss: >How much money is really needed for a robowaifu startup? >What needs to be done to ensure solvency and growth? >How to navigate (or circumvent) government red-tape? >How to deal with tariffs and import/export restrictions? >How to keep the work environment safe and secure? >How to manage presence and public opinion? >Which countries would be the easiest to work with? Hardest? >How to manage legal needs and work with lawyers? When discussing, keep in mind that not all nations are equal and may have different benefits and challenges in respect to all of these concerns. <---> Please Stay On-topic ITT

We want our robowaifus to speak to us right? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis https://archive.is/xxMI4 research.spa.aalto.fi/publications/theses/lemmetty_mst/contents.html https://archive.is/nQ6yt The Taco Tron project: arxiv.org/abs/1703.10135 google.github.io/tacotron/ https://archive.is/PzKZd No code available yet, hopefully they will release it. github.com/google/tacotron/tree/master/demos

This thread is a list of threads that are hosted on Trashchan It's basically like a portal to another realm. <---> /mecha/ /robowaifu/ embassy https://trashchan.xyz/mecha/thread/1011.html IRL Mecha and mecha theory (including military theory) https://trashchan.xyz/mecha/thread/1075.html note: Please keep our typical namefagging as used here, over on /mecha/ constrained to just these two threads. * TIA. >t. Chobitsu

In this thread post links to books, videos, MOOCs, tutorials, forums, and general learning resources about creating robots (particularly humanoid robots), writing AI or other robotics related software, design or art software, electronics, makerspace training stuff or just about anything that's specifically an educational resource and also useful for anons learning how to build their own robowaifus. >tl;dr ITT we mek /robowaifu/ school.

This is a thread to discuss smaller or general waifu building problems, solutions, proposals and questions that don't warrant a thread or touch on more than one topic. In a way this is a technical meta, minus news. Keep it technical. A lot of topics in the old thread here >>83 have a thread on their own by now. The main topics in the old thread with the link to the related dedicated threads are listed here - it was mostly about actuation at the beginning: Topics in the old OP: - liquid battery and cooling in one (flow batteries) >>5080 - artificial muscles (related to actuators >>12810) - high level and low level intelligence emulation (AI) (related to AI >>77 >>22 >>250 >>27 >>201) - wear and maintenance, including repairs - sanitation >>1627 (related to actuators >>12810) > cheap hydraulic and pneumatic muscles > woven sleeves out of strong nylon fishing line > exhaust excess heat by breathing and panting (related to thermal management >>234) >>1635 (related to energy systems >>5080) > sitting in her 'recharging chair'

Vagoo. I can't speak for anyone but myself but I'd like to get.. intimate with my fembot. I'd like to know what my options are for her robopussy. I was thinking something like a flesh light with sensors that triggers voice and arm action. I'm using Myrobotlab is Anyone familiar with it?

Robosex general I guess

This thread is dedicated to the study, design, and engineering of a cute face for robots.

We need to talk about bipedal locomotion. It's a complicated topic but one that has to be solved if we are ever to have satisfyingly believable robowaifus. There has surely already been a lot of research done on this topic, and we need to start digging and find the info that's out there. There are some projects that have at least partial robolegs solutions working, but none that I know of that look very realistic yet. We likely won't come up with some master-stroke of genius and solve everyone's problems here on /robowaifu/, but we should at least take a whack at it who knows? We certainly can't accomplish anything if we don't try.

I personally believe we should be keeping the weight out of the extremities – including the legs – while other anons think that we should add weight to the feet for balance. What's you're ideas anon? How do we control the gait? How do we adjust for different conditions? What if our robowaifu is carrying things? What about the legs during sex? Should we focus on the maths behind MIP (Mobile Inverted Pendulum), or is there a different approach that would be more straightforward? A mixture? Maybe we can even do weird stuff like reverse-knee legs that so many animals have. Robofaun waifu anyone? What about having something like heelys or bigger wheels in the feet as well?

I'm pretty sure if we just put our heads together and don't stop trying, we'll eventually arrive at least one good general solution to the problem of creating bipedal robot legs.

>tl;dr
ITT post good robowaifu legs

>tech diagrams sauce
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgaEE27nsQw
www.goatstream.com/research/papers/SA2013/SA2013.pdf