Talk:Humanoid robot

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-I see a grammerical error in RoboSapiens. Im going to edit that now. -Mike —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Zblewski (talk • contribs) 08:33, 30 October 2006.

Not sure if this is the place to put it, but Kawada has unveiled the HRP-2.[1] Beowulph 18:18, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure if the timeline should be in this article. It is not even close to complete (it would be hard to complete). It is missing obvious projects like COG (which is still listed in the article, but not in the timeline), and even HRP-2 mentioned just above, and is available in far more detail on many other web sites. Perhaps the "time line" section should just contain links to other resources, or be removed altogether? --JCipriani 00:17, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm thinking about moving the timeline to a position near the bottom of the article and putting it in a table. Any objections? I wouldn't be any good at saying which entries are more notable, or which should stay or go, but I would suggest moving it to its own page if it continues to grow. Robotman1974 07:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I've moved the timeline (now in a table) to the bottom of the article. Robotman1974 12:22, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Ethical concerns misplaced?

Shouldn't the section on ethical concerns fall under the ambit of AI - specifically, Philosophy of artificial intelligence - rather than humanoid robots? There isn't really a strong link between a humanoid robot form and the ethical concerns expressed on this page.

I suggest that the ethical concerns section instead say "Most of the ethical concerns associated with development of humanoid robots have to do with their level of intelligence or free will. For more information, see Philosophy of artificial intelligence."

If there are some ethical concerns specifically associated with humanoid robots (e.g. deception associated with the robots being physically indistinguishable from humans), they would belong in this article - otherwise my view is that there's really not much of a reason to keep the section here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 155.69.74.37 (talk • contribs) 21:16, 21 November 2006.

This page needs major cleanup. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.114.2.118 (talk • contribs) 17:57, 27 November 2006.

[edit] Shadow Hand

I removed Shadow Hand from the timeline as it is not a full humanoid robot. I think that at this late stage in development, there are too many new advances in the technology of separate parts for them to be included in such a timeline. Further, I feel that new and expected advances shouldn't get new entries - those should be reserved for entirely new serious humanoid robot projects. I've moved the link to the "See also" section. Robotman1974 16:16, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposed merge

I strongly support the proposed merge - let's face it - this is the same subject. Ok, so these articles have slightly different flavours, but they're made of the same stuff. Forgive me if I've made a mistake, but I see no other discussion of the proposed merge here. Tree Kittens 08:14, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

I do not support the merge. 'Android' (and Gynoid) are historically-used terms that have no direct reference to a specific corporation or patent. They are recognized words which can be found in any unabridged dictionary whereas 'Actroid' is a name (probably trademarked) given to a specific line of products created by Osaka Corp and is not found in a dictionary. While Actroid could be added to the Android article as a specific reference to an example of applied Android technology, it should likely remain as a seperate article unless many more examples apart from the Osaka Corp. products are included to prevent biased content within the article. D.Leslie 22-Oct-2007 10:31 (UTC)

I dispute the idea that finding or not something in a dictionary made by someone (or even in wiktionary) serves as a justification for anything. (but that doesn't mean I support or not any actions regarding the actoroid thing, or whatever) -- NIC1138 (talk) 17:50, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

no it is NOT the same subject just because it has different title! Wikipedia will lost fotos that are different on each article. insted will gain another long article. Difference is that androids mimics humans, humanoid robots mimic human movement. Android is trying to hide its robotic origin. Thanks and stop merging articles. Everything is the same anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.250.202.212 (talk) 18:05, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

That is unlikely the important images (photos) in those articles are part of Wikipedia Commons thus they are free and will not be deleted, the remaining fair use images are of fiction and they either belong in those articles or aren't needed at all. - Caribbean~H.Q. 18:10, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] What's missing?

This line's a bit of a "What?"

Miomir Vukobratovic and his associates at Mihajlo Pupin Institute the first active anthropomorphic exoskeleton.

[edit] Etymology

Since "human" comes from Latin, and the -oid thing is Greek, can we say this is one of those word invented mixing up Latin and Greek carelessly? Wouldn't "anthropoid" be more correct?

I dispute a bit this idea that "android" means a strictly "male humanoid", and gynoid (why not "gymnoid"?) is the female counterpart. I would like to remove this from the article, and certainly I would like to move this sentence away from the beginning of it... -- NIC1138 (talk) 17:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)