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typs · 1m ago

This is so sick. I agree that it’s a little lame that we have all these AI capabilities right now, robotics improving, and all we can think of making is humanoid robots. Like I want a spider/squid hybrid robot running around my house

regularfry · 2m ago

I seem to remember that the SpiRobs paper behind the (extremely neat) tentacle mechanism indicated that they were going for a patent.

sparrish · 3m ago

Hell no! I seen this movie and I don't want any face-hugger sitting on my desk.

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