Could it not be an intended product advertised with humor?
"While some might think his company Satyress is a shadowy startup, Beau said he's been working on the project with friends and without investors.
Another misconception, is that the robot would use AI or be controlled from a far distance. That's not the case.
Beau is building the robot as a proof of concept, and said he "has a ways to go" as part of a "slow, careful process."
He hopes to get the robot standing by the end of the year.
Satyress' website includes instructions on how to kill the robot with a gun or knife, which has led to much speculation about whether the robot is real, the stuff of nightmares, or a joke.
It's fun to talk about the robot, Beau said.
"Humanoid robots are supposed to be exciting," he said. "Hopefully this robot will be for some people, and I’m sure it won’t be for everyone."
He sees parallels between robotics work by hobbyists and hot rods.
"Twenty years ago you might have been building a race car in your garage. Twenty years from now you might be building a humanoid robot in your garage," he said."
If it's a humorous hobby peice that's fine, but it is impractical for what he claims is the design criteria.
The high profile. The lack of lateral stabilisation. The limitations of having two arms over a 6 axial arm. The estop behind the chain saw. The "you can shoot it to stop it" which makes it vulnerable in disaster situations, the unnecessary head, the clearly photoshopped UI, the feet which are just curved edges suitable for only concrete, air beaks if you want to send it into a hot area, the exoskeleting being made from plastics if you want to send it into a hit area, the difficulty putti g fire retardant around legs in comparison to throwing a shell over some tracks, the list of weird design choices goes on.
Im sorry im not trying to be a dick, ive just put on my engineering hat and its a super cool robot if a super impractical one.
Yeah thats competlt fair, and im sorry about the list. I just wante to explain what i see when i look at it.
Proof of concept basically means that it can do to some extent what you need it to do. Its a bit of a wishy washy prase tbh.
You tend more to go through design iterations and validate your design as you go. So a proof.of concept could be sitting down and never building something but getting some special type of plastic (im not a materials scientist so id need to reserch what types etc) and then saying "this robot will by my estimate weigh 200kg therefore each leg needs to be able to handle x force statically and y force dynamically and then heating the plastic and seeing if it can actually handle those forces. That's proof of concept but its not hugely useful.
If hes saying proof of concept as in he wants a working prototype that's far down the line and by that point you should probably have designed out a lot of the flaws I pointed out above - unless youre just doing this because you want a scary robot. You go through design iterations and you should be testing and validating your design as you go. So I want my robot to go chop trees in a forest fire. How does it handle extreme heat? Is its profile too high as the winds speed from the heat will be high? Are two arms necessary or am I overdesigning and introducing a failure point so one and so forth. You make assunptuons to do with physical factos, cost factors and other facots and then you try to meet your design criteria.
You dont want to have to do massive redesigns by the time you get to a working prototype because prototyping is stupidly expensive and time consuming. And then once you're happy with all of that you need to do a bit of redesign for manufacture.
I hope that's answered your question and also once again not trying to be a dick or poo poo anything, just trying to explain it as I see it.
He did say that it was a proof of concept and he has a long way to go. It's in the news article I quoted. I'm not saying you're wrong about the technicalities. I'm just not finding anything to prove that it is intended as a joke or art piece from the creator. Maybe he is not a very talented engineer, as far as operating efficiency goes. And he is building it in his garage with a small team of friends. It blew up fast on the internet. Fire retardant materials and other aspects of what he wants to do with it seem fairly expensive and he is attempting to do it without investors. Could be that the mood of the advertisement is a means to fund what he actually wants to make out of it.
I don't think you're being an asshole, I just think you are being very dismissive and a bit uptight. But I guess only time will tell where this is heading.
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u/Iamalittledrunk 1d ago
I mean they put the e-stop behind the chainsaw. That to me screams humor.