>>39617 You can do a lot more than that with rTMS. You can suppress or excite any part of the outer cortex with rTMS up to 1 inch deep and about the area of a quarter. You could potentially even use it to enhance intelligence. tFUS is even more powerful. You can stimulate or depress areas very deep in the brain with millimeter precision using tFUS. If you really tried you could probably "rewire" a person using tFUS.

>>39622 Nice! >>39623 Creepy...

>>39626 It's only "creepy" because the technology is in the hands of people who would misuse it. If people like us were in control of such technology... https://engineering.washu.edu/news/2022/Low-cost-3D-printed-device-may-broaden-use-of-focused-ultrasound-technique.html

>>39628 If only... I've thought the same thoughts about social media censorship and algorithms

Unexpected robowaifu enemy: Hustle Manosphere grifters They're downstream from Andrew "what color is you Bugatti" Tate, and try to often sell courses, so their business model is directly threatened by AI companions. I kept arguing with one on Twitter who kept saying "AI isn't real love", but never could explain why. Probably Steroid brainrot.

>>39629 I've already seen DIY brain stimulation with tDCS/tACs and homemade rTMS. https://www.instructables.com/Transcranial-Magnetic-Stimulation-TMS-Device/

>>39631 Holy shit, that's amazing. Definitely going to be downloaded as a PDF You better have the utmost confidence in your capabilities if you use this though

>>39630 >Arguing Why do you concern yourself with the thoughts of lesser cretins? It's just noise. They can bark all they want, won't mean anything. They're a tiny minority, who will flip to our side eventually, we need only patience. For now, keep making videos. Focus on improving production value. Play with cinematography and sound design. Have fun with it, there's heaps of tutorials on youtube. You're the only one with an actively developing robot that's able to be filmed. Look at trends, memes, chase attention instead of fighting with morons online.

>>39632 DNA printers are also getting cheap enough for individuals to purchase too. We live in very interesting times.

>>39633 You're right. TBF, I didn't expect it to become a prolonged argument, and I hate not having the last word. But again, you're right, I'll probably block them if they continue. >For now, keep making videos. Focus on improving production value. Play with cinematography and sound design. Have fun with it, there's heaps of tutorials on youtube. You're the only one with an actively developing robot that's able to be filmed. Thank you. It was definitely fun to be able to use a sci-fi background track that I loved for years in my video. https://youtu.be/Bkg08NvtvBU?si=uAqg40oRDhUFzhE6 >Look at trends, memes, chase attention instead of fighting with morons online. Definitely have been doing that. I have been experimenting with Galatea reaction pics As for Galatea herself, I have been working on some minor updates and additions. As Chobitsu would say, Onward!

>>39631 >>39632 >>39634 >DNA Printers Wow Here's the PDF, however I got it from the dedicated Save as PDF button on the page itself

>>39634 >DNA printers are also getting cheap enough for individuals to purchase too This is tremendously interesting. "If" these can be combined with genetic engineering of cultures like Kombucha, a symbiosis of bacteria and yeast you cold have a world wide food revolution. This is one of those things that can be done but takes some intellectual effort to bring it into effect. Once you have the recipe for some sort of food and can engineer the yeast and bacteria then you could make whatever food you want. So this could be a world wide open source food manufacturing system that can't be embargoed, killed off by drought or stopped by globalhomo monopolist. Big deal. People could sell recipes for different types of food like meat, green beans, etc. It would be code for the DNA printer, a basic yeast, bacteria, stripped of all but the essentials and CRISPER engineering to splice it. Or you could just sell the culture or the final product. You might say this is too complicated or can't be done but...it's already being done. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_Day_(company) https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/10/Protein_from_air_and_electricity_only Insulin is made like this. There's a company that uses electricity and air to make sugars to feed the organisms, combined with CO2 from the atmosphere. meaning you could use solar panels. They use this tech to make whey, like from milk. They started with more ambitious plans but decided to scale back to this. I did some rough calculations on this to feed the whole planet. I used the planetary population, then added up all the calories needed, then converted into watts, then used the present companies calculation of calories per watt they got making sugars and using air but with existing solar panels, then figured the area needed to be covered with solar panels to make all this engineered food. In every single step in this calculation I vastly reduced the efficiency, raised the calories and greatly over estimated to get a real, with F ups, number. I came up with a very high calorie diet for everyone could be done in a desert area that's 209 miles by 289 miles and could feed everyone on planet earth with a large amount of food every day. It's sad that with all the genetic engineering tools we have, the best they can do is make plants that can withstand dumping weedkillers on them. If we can survive their globalhomo Vax attacks, monopolies and global wars then it's inevitable that this tech and advanced solar panels can free us from their nefarious clutches.

>>39645 There are already various DIY biohacking resources available. People are working on 3d printed bioreactors and gene editing tools available right now. Also mycelium gene edited to produce hemes are being investigated as a genetically engineered meat substitute. A lot can be done with DIY bio, but I know this place is more focused on robowaifus. Would there be an interest here in a thread on biohacking and DIY bio? I think given all that is going on with AI revolutionizing biotechnology and advances in white biotechnology the thread would be justified.

To bring this back to propaganda; another group that might be worth poaching from would be scientists and engineers from charter cities. Prospera types would fall into the male STEM majors, transhumanists, and technophiles all at once.

>>39650 True, but we have no direct channels to them, unless one of lives near one and is willing to travel to put up physical posters

>>39645 BTW calories from bioreactors are about 200% more efficient use of sunlight even if the power comes from solar panels which waste a good deal of it. Plants really suck at making useful biomass.

>>39649 >DIY biohacking resources available There was aguy selling this stuff and resources to use CRISPER to inject the gene for super muscles into people(among other things). He was killed by....well we don't know but...

What does /robowaifu/ think about 8chan.moe? I found them while looking for something else, and they have communities that are similar to ours

>>39663 They don't seem to be very active aside from the porn boards.

>>39665 I did find an active board about AI https://8chan.moe/ais/catalog.html

>>39667 That might be worth making a recruitment thread on.

>>39630 >>39633 >>39635 One benefit of getting into debates is seeing new arguments against robowaifus, and crafting new rebuttals against them

>>39479 Made some updates to this picture to make it look more like a robowaifu

Anons, I've never posted on this fine board before - I'm an /o/ tourist to /diy/, and doubly-so a tourist here, and I didn't want to waste a thread on nonsense. Having found this place is nothing short of incredible, since I hadn't thought anyone else is doing this (I assumed someone must be, but not to this scale.) I've been working on getting a robowaifu for years at this point. I will delude neither myself nor anyone here - I'm not a particularly skilled engineer, nor am I a particularly talented developer. My only real "skill" is that my dad was a Soviet-era apparatchik. From him, I learned how to be a complete and utter sleazeball - I CAN Ramon my way into positions I should never be trusted with. This includes obtaining any sort of permit, getting any sort of logistics chain in place, and so on - a толкач through and through. I am a master bullshit-spewer, rivaling TED-Talk speech-givers, and I can negotiate anything with anyone, coming from a long line of party-grifters, sanction-busters, and hagglers. Where I'm going with this is that I want to help. I am fully ready to pour enormous amounts of time, money, and autism into making this work, or helping any anon that needs helping. My reasons for doing so are not relevant. I am unfortunately a fairly busy guy at the moment, but I want to help you guys with whatever free time I have (at least two hours per day, 5 days a week are available.) I am COMPLETELY ready to meet up with any anons (location - Greater Toronto Area, Ontario). Whatever you need - imports, export, tax-writeoffs, shell companies, I can get it done. Documents, permits, legal counsel - sourcing logistics, sourcing materials - whatever market you need it from, I can arrange it. If you anons want to start a company or a non-profit to expedite the process / use government money to build robowaifus, I would be more than happy to help. Please feel welcome to e-mail me, but I assume keeping it on the board is more helpful for other anons.

>>39705 Hello Толкач, welcome! Your English seems perfect. Please have a good look around the board while you're here. <---> >Offer to Help So, what's it gonna cost us? Most of us are but poor Anons (several of us are in school). Our only quid pro quo to offer is basically the robowaifu 'products' themselves. At this moment even that is more of a potential than a hard reality. As far as needs, I expect there are many. We need ways to protect anonymity of the developers here while still allowing for actual business transactions for them. For those of us looking to start up legitimate businesses/non-profits, we need ways to cut through the bureaucratic red tape at the various governmental levels. @Ribose is looking to begin a live-in research fraternity in the Chicago region : ( >>38131 ). We need a general robowaifu legal defense fund for protection from the inevitable attacks by (((femsh*tes, et al))) against us, once we're established. Finally, R&D+production funding is the primary reason we're not all further down the road, as is. I'm personally seeking to obtain between US$25M-50M "let's find out if this venture will work" -tier funding (so-called 'Angel' funding) to start a smol robowaifu interest in the PNW. The plan is office, lab, and manufacturing spaces; with nearby room-and-board support for Anons to come onboard with us. First as interns, then the really talented/productive ones as full-time staff with some benefits.

>>39705 It would be excellent if you could help. I think the most productive way to help would be to solve a few technical problems that we have. I suspect the largest and first that needs solved is actuators or muscles. In my opinion, or what I want and suspect most desirable, would be a muscle that is much like a humans in action. Not robot type but a contracting muscle that looks human. I have though about this, a lot, and have not come up with a way to make one that can be easily mass produced. Sure you can easily make a motor and use it to wind up a cord pulling the muscle but to get 300 of them, needed to faithfully mimic human anatomy, is difficult without raising the cost too high. The block is the coils used to run the motors and the huge mass of individual wires to drive the coils. You have to wind a LOT of small tiny wires. Another avenue is less wires but rare earth magnets but the magnets are expensive, hard to get, break the budget and you still have a large mass of tiny wires. I and others, have speculated that the break out cost for large scale acquisition is really, really good at $2,000 USD, but I suspect you could also do well at $3,000. After that I think the cost would start biting into demand. Maybe the fastest way to move things along is to hire someone to go around and ask every single scientist you can find that worked on actuators what they have that might could work and be easily manufactured. I mentioned electrical but it may be hydraulics is the way to go. I have a few ideas on this but some of the same problems remain. You still have to drive these hydraulics, traditionally, they have very poor efficiency, are really messy and a pain in the ass. There's also a big problem controlling hydraulics to get any sort of accuracy. If at all possible electrically driven is better. On the control front, walking, moving around etc. , I suspect that AI can be used to mimic normal human walking and it can be done but will just take a lot of time to get it right. Much like Elon Musk is doing self driving. It just takes a lot of feedback, but once done it's just a matter of copying the network for "walking and movement" into the waifu. I don't say this is easy but I see a clear path to it getting done. The actuator problem though seems to be a real roadblock. If you look at the site I have thrown up idea after idea about the actuators and have still not come to any definitive conclusion on what is to be done. To me a break down of the biggest problems and order of difficulty are 1. actuators 2. AI for reasoning 3. AI for movement 4. Skin The rest are also things need done but i think these are more difficult. Others may disagree but what I want out of a waifu is something that looks basically organic like. Could be a fox girl or other but the skin should look good and it should have a smooth organic movement. Reasoning I would be happy with a very young child like intelligence of 3 or 4. Be able to "come here", "go there", move this, that, some simple stuff.

>>39708 Hey, mate! :) Thanks so much - it's a pleasure to be here. I've been lurking for a few days now, actually - will, of course, continue lurking - I like this place very much so, and you guys seem great. And thank you! (RE: English) - haha, I've actually been living in Canada for nearly two decades at this point. >RE: What's it gonna cost us? It won't cost you guys anything. I'm not expecting to be remunerated or compensated in any manner. While I cannot disclose my reasons, our interests are very much so aligned. You may consider all services rendered to be pro-bono. :) RE: Legal issues; my company specializes in making problems go away. I think I might be able to help you anons out here too. As far as funding is concerned - I'm very interested in helping you guys out with that; while my company is not (yet) at a scale where I'd be able to provide financial backing (though, if it was, I'd be more than delighted to fund development.) Still, I think that I could certainly help you guys actually get this off the ground.

>>39710 OK, then let's start talking this through, Толкач. Funnily enough, while up in the mountains I had the inkling (about a week ago or so) that /robowaifu/ needs a 'Business Startups & Legalities' thread. I'd invite you or one of our regulars to start such a thread here, and let's move these conversations there. Please use good OP pics! We can edit the text at-will, but the pics aren't as easy. Looking forward to it, Anon. Cheers. :^)

>>39709 I'd be happy to help out, anon. Interesting to see how there are a few different schools of design on the board, between the different anons - robowaifus where the point is they're mechanical, and robowaifus designed to be unrecognizable as machines. Very neat! Now, if I may - it seems to me that there are two ways of going about this - the first is "movement needs to be accomplished via any possible means" - actuators, hydraulics, and the like - even if it doesn't look pretty. Then, comes the process of refining them - artificial muscle, and realistic skin. The second is "the first prototype is an ultrarealistic robowaifu" - no iterating, just full-spend on getting the first prototype ready from the get-go. I'll get into digging up some contacts that might be able to help out with finding solutions to this issue. Now, as I'd said - I'm not a particularly talented engineer, but, if I may ask - have pneumatics been considered? I mean, sure, force output is decreased on a same-size scale, but speed of movements (and fluidity of motion) is vastly superior to hydraulics. Plus, mess is reduced to a minimum; moreover, pneumatics run cooler, catastrophic failure is, well, less catastrophic, and there are more solutions on the market for portable power plants (compressors and tanks.) Also, if it's a HPA system, you've got the added risk of your robowaifu blowing up - sexy! Since, unlike human muscles, which are pullers, pneumatic cylinders are pushers - the only difference is that the flexor and extensor muscles of a robowaifu would just be flipped compared to human anatomy. I'll look into it though!

>>39711 Sounds good, Chobitsu. :) If I may, I'd only ask for one favor - could a regular anon make the thread? I feel that I haven't yet picked up enough board etiquette so as to post a thread, but would be happy to contribute inside the thread itself! Very excited to get involved and help you guys out.

>>39713 >If I may, I'd only ask for one favor - could a regular anon make the thread? Certainly. <<< REQUEST >>> @Greentext anon || @Kiwi Can you create a new thread-related for this series of discussions, please? TIA. ( >>39705, >>39708, >>39710, >>39711 ) --- update: Done. (cf. >>39717 ) <---> Cheers, Anons. :^) Forward!

>>39712 >pneumatics been considered Yes. Like hydraulics they are inefficient and noisy. Control is difficult because of the spring effect of pnumatics. There's a robot somewhere on here that has good movement with hydraulics but when you hear the sound it's ear splitting. Pnuematics would likely be the same. Pneumatics is also power hungary. The expansion and compression of the gasses heats things up. And even though I damn pnuematics and hydraulics it may very well be that this is the only way to get something that's super cheap and maybe some way could be thought up to lower the noise level and power usage. I could see pnumatics being super low cost because it's a bunch of bladders that can be cast. Make a mold and you could rapidly inject the whole waifu muscle system in one shot. You can makle pnumatics contract with a bladder thta is constrained by a stiff net like a fish net made of wire steel as an example. The air blows a cylinder into a ball and contracts. Here's some links here that shows this, >>1422 >>1609 >>5336

>>39712 >>39728 I assume linear electric motors were too weak/slow?

>>39736 >I assume linear electric motors were too weak/slow? No. Let's look at some numbers. So 100 Watts to Foot-pounds-force Per Second = 73.7562 That's a lot of force 73 pounds Tesla 3 motor output = 258KW(345HP) at 27.99Kg(60lbs.) 302 lb-ft of torque but a human rarely puts out more than 400 watts in peak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_power So the tesla motor puts out 4300 watts/pound and human puts out(at 250watts and 200lbs.), 1.25 watts/pound So electric motors can be VERY powerful per weight. Maybe I'm wrong but the problem I see it is that winding these coils is the problem. A really kick ass overview of "exactly" what it takes is in this video of a Chinese drone motor factory. "These drone motors can carry a car! - Strange Parts" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQ9eZPoWJkI The whole thing is well worth watching but specifically on coils see, 13:13 for by hand 12:48 a machine and don't forget they are using rare earths which would entirely break the budget for us because of cost and Chinese suppliers would, I suspect strongly, get lower prices AND preferred supplies. So rare earths are out. But I say they are not needed because we can get good performance from magnetic reactance motors. Basically the attraction of metals to magnetic fields. The problem is these coils. First you will likely have to get the wire from China and then you have to wind it. There are. I think, solutions to the winding. Here is a serpentine coil wound from one big single loop from the extraordinarily wonderful and magnificent Robert Murray-Smith whose work is impossible to praise enough. "1859 A Serpentine Coil - How To Best Make it" "1929 Serpentine Coil Winding Jig - Robert Murray-Smith" "1800 Super Easy Coil Winding - Serpentine Coils For DIY Generators" "1801 Winding Star (Faulhaber) Coils And Making Litz Wire" I may have missed some. All are good. Some possibilities I've thought of. Use a silver soldier with low resistance and then use molded armatures and rotors/actuators that then have the soldier injected into spaces that are pre-made. So use a mold with built in spaces, melt in soldier and you have coils integral to the part. Now this soldier is not cheap. You might be able to make your own from junk silver coins at USD $36.96/oz (present junk coin silver price). Maybe mix it with other metals. Now this is expensive but for coils you might not need a lot and it's certainly cheaper than rare earth minerals. Another possibility is aluminium. Now all this may seem a bit troublesome until you look at all these Chinese winding this stuff by hand or that slow ass machine winding coils. There's a limit to the speed of these things without breaking the wire and the wire itself is not cheap. But once again when you have the motor/actuator you still have to wire it up and control it. It becomes difficult. Not that it can't be done but this all breaks the $3,000 dollar barrier to cost. One avenue is to sell it as a kit with a pre-made harness and let people wire it up themselves. Might work but it would vastly limit the market. However it could be a good start to make some revenue while you find a way to automate the rest. and I need to add to be specific >>39712 >pneumatics run cooler I do not believe this to be true. Maybe I'm wrong but from my reading pneumatics waste a lot of heat. The part that confuses people is that when you compress the air all the extra heat made is forced out of the reservoir. So you might think there's not heat lost but it's just lost where you don't see it. As actuators are activated with pneumatics it actually absorbs heat and becomes cold. Large industrial systems warm the air to get extra kick out of them. See for yourself. Here's likely one of the largest collection of air car and other air driven machinery sources on the whole entire internet. This guy obsessed about air cars for decades and collected all this info about them. https://web.archive.org/web/20241027101226/https://www.aircaraccess.com/index.html

>>39754 Kindly reminder this is the Propaganda thread, Anons. Please move these acuators discussions to it's thread. TIA.

I'm currently conceptualizing some new advertisements YouTube Video: "POV: Dinner Date with the Galatea Maid Robot v3" Poster: "This could be you!" (Poster of me on Galatea's lap, with my face covered by black ink with white text saying "This can be you!"

>>39762 That sounds appealing, GreerTech. Good luck! :^)

There's this trend on Twitter of people getting horny for the B1 Battle Droid from Star Wars. (For casual fans: the robots in the prequels that go Roger Roger) No I don't believe it either Good news I guess. Robot waifus are becoming more popular. It's extra funny to me because I am a big Star Wars fan. I once described Galatea to my friend as "Female C-3PO with the design principles of a B1 Battle Droid". One guy here also compared robowaifus to Protocol Droids.

>>39762 Stole your poster idea for SPUD lol

>>39882 "(shakes fist) Oooooh I'm steaming, I'm fixing to get angry!" ------- Haha nice! I made a bordered version to fit more standard social media

>>39882 >>39883 SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.mov :D

The best success I have had is with Twitter and YouTube

@Chobistu, you should make an official /robowaifu/ Twitter account

>>39960 You're not the first one to try getting me to do that, GreerTech. I seriously considered it once Elon Musk kicked out all the glownigger usurpers there. But today I simply don't have the time/still don't have the interest. Feel free to do so yourself Anon. You have a good interest in propaganda for us here so yea. Have at it with my blessings. Cheers. :^)

This right here could be a powerful meme to encourage the use of local models.

>>39972 That's a good point, Anon. I doubt it would have much effect on Anons who've been around a while, but for newer ones (& normalfags) it just might have an impact. Good thinking, Anon. Cheers. :^)

>>39972 Here u go have dis

>>39979 TopLol :DD >"Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?"

>>39979 Oh that is very good. Maybe make one where Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg are dressed in a pimp costume.

>>39983 On second thought that might make them look cool and give them an image to play into.