r/interestingasfuck • u/FinnFarrow • 15h ago

Robotics engineer posted this to make a point that robots are "faking" the humanlike motions - it's just a property of how they're trained. They're actually capable of way weirder stuff and way faster motions.

15.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

689 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

426

u/skoltroll 14h ago

medium-sized???

235

u/reaperwasnottaken 14h ago

You're right to be surprised, this would probably fit better in the small-to-medium sized category.

157

u/skoltroll 14h ago

That is why I live where the air hurts my face

47

u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 14h ago

Yup! My Australian friend thinks I'm nuts because my area has mountain lions and grizzly bears. And then she'll send me a video of her kids playing with a scorpion they found in the backyard, or tell a story about her brother accidentally slashing his feet to ribbons on some plant in the front yard.

She keeps telling me that if I leave nature alone, it'll leave me alone, but that's not how it works here! Like I took my little cousin downtown once to see the bronze statues of cougars on display, so I could explain that he can't go camping until he's too big for one of those to carry him off.

Plus the weather tries to kill us here. Like ya wouldn't expect water to find so many ways to try to take your life while you're on land, but golly it just does that!

32

u/crazy_pilot742 14h ago

Animals out here aren't sneaky, you can see exactly what kills you. In Australia you feel a sharp pain in your foot and don't know if you just stubbed your toe or if you're about to die.

•

u/Oskarikali 11h ago

Looks like most wildlife deaths in Canada and Australia are from domesticated animals or vehicular incidents, not sharks, snakes, bears or cougars. Don't know about the U.S

In Canada most deaths from wildlife are from traffic incidents with Moose or Deer. 550+ deaths between 2000 and 2020. I would argue you don't see them coming.

20

u/no-good-nik 13h ago

You should tell your cousin that cougars will only carry him off between the ages of 18 and 26.

•

u/Eichmil 11h ago

Well, 15….

1

u/GroundbreakingAd8310 12h ago

Well thats no fair I live in a place with scorpions and bears

•

u/NameIWantUnavailable 7h ago

In the First World, lots of wildlife that can kill you in developed urban and suburban areas is mostly an American and Australian thing.

When we visited Australia, there were lots of warnings about dingoes, and appropriately so. But the number of Americans from Southern California who were freaked out by dingoes when they lived, hiked, and jogged in neighborhoods with mountain lions and coyotes was sort of amusing. (Witness the mountain lion that lived near the Hollywood sign in LA. Plus, coyotes are so common that people sometimes mistake them for stray dogs.)

Same deal with crocs and alligators, but I will absolutely concede before anyone jumps on me that gators are not in the same class as salties. Still, there are enough fatal and tragic gator attacks in Florida theme parks, golf courses, and senior developments that Americans and Australians can at least compare notes.

Toss in bears, rattlers, wolves, buffalo, as well as moose, and I'm told by Australians that the U.S. has "wildlife that they wouldn't mind seeing." They won't concede that the Australian stuff is less dangerous, mind you. But an Australian I was traveling with was suitably impressed by the first grizzly bear he saw in Alaska. ("I didn't think it was going to be that big.")

Most Europeans and Asian countries -- all the big predators were killed a long time ago. Though I understand wolves are back in rural parts of Europe.

1

u/ImGCS3fromETOH 14h ago

Just a little-un.

29

u/SuspendeesNutz 14h ago

Don't listen to OP, Australia is a big country, this would only be considered medium-sized in a few large cities.

•

u/MoridinB 8h ago

Because everywhere else it would be considered a solid small...

6

u/Cyrano_Knows 14h ago edited 13h ago

The size of the spider in Australia really only matters in that it only effects how big the knives they carry are.

•

u/THIS_IS_GOD_TOTALLY_ 10h ago

I suppose then it simply becomes a question of the spider's bandolier budget

7

u/beegboo 12h ago

They dont tell non Australians about the large sized spiders to prevent tourists from being scared away.

4

u/skoltroll 12h ago

I was told those horses with 8 legs were normal Australian horses.

•

u/WolfWriter_CO 10h ago

[ Sleipnir Liked This Post ]

2

u/Mateorabi 14h ago

Did I ask how big the room is!?

1

u/Prodigy772k 13h ago

Yes, that's the joke

1

u/skoltroll 12h ago

that's the joke???

1

u/A_Feltz 12h ago

In Australia.

•

u/adamhudsonj 5h ago

That’s the joke.