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WCDT strips 3276-3280 - 1st to 5th August 2016

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BenRG:
So, what does everyone expect for tomorrow? I'm thinking of some kind of cliffhanger where we are left to wonder over the weekend what direction Faye and Bubbles will jump. Maybe Faye and Bubbles will get a bit too into poking and prodding each other's meat and realise they may have crosssed a line? Or, maybe, Bubbles will tamely indulge Faye's curiosity about her actual body under her armour and will end the strip by saying something that makes it abundantly clear that Faye holds a very, very important place in her emotional life?


--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 04 Aug 2016, 05:18 ---Admittedly, a slinky filled with ball bearings is a really solid engineering practice for the kind of range of motion you'd expect from that portion of Bubble's armor.
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Jeph does like to reseach his scripts and art; it's reasonable to assume that he tried to figure out Faye - who now has three or so months practical robotics engineering experience - would likely actually say.


--- Quote from: Gyrre on 03 Aug 2016, 23:33 ---well, from the joke at the bottom  of the comic, we might infer that there are ball bearings to help facilitate the movement in her hip joints.
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Based on the arc where Bubbles and Faye are fixing May's chassis, I think it was pretty much established that bearings are commonly used in robot limb-to-torso joints. That said, I'm thinking that Jeph was making an indirect 'literal buns of steel' joke.

Thrudd:

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--- Quote from: theMarc on 03 Aug 2016, 20:30 ---Synthetic musculature, hmm... I never really thought about it, but now I'm curious about Bubbles's inner workings.

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well, from the joke at the bottom  of the comic, we might infer that there are ball bearings to help facilitate the movement in her hip joints. I wonder how small they are.
EDIT: How small the ball bearings are.

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I see two basic styles of chassis here with a whole range of variation in each category and some possible overlap.

Punchbot seems to be more industrial.
The chassis lacks any extraneous sensors or accessories like hair or ears.
Design seems to be very industrial with a mixture of internal framework and external shell both providing structural support.
Limbs have full freedom of movement based on  how they are assembled.
Hydraulics would be the most practical for speed and power though fine motor control is also doable.
Most likely it is a mix of hydraulic and electromagnetic servos.

Full anthropomorphic chassis like Momo and possibly Bubbles, are modeled on a humans skeleton and musculature structure.
Ranges of movement and strength levels will therefore be similar or regulated to keep them scale-able to the human norm.
So dermal layers are more like organic skin and provide a protective layer as well as having the option of embedded micro-sensors of the required types like pressure, temperature, light, etc.
As for locomotion there are already in existence various technologies based on memory metals and plastics that can be assembled as fibers to look and behave like muscle tissue.
So no need to go all industrial with a rotating asymmetric ring design.

TL:DR
Full Anthropomorphic AIs have synthetic muscles and can be as sculpted as a Greek statue.

Warning - while you were typing a new reply has been posted. You may wish to revise your engineering speculation. Also a micro black hole drank your coffee.

Ysobel:

--- Quote from: MrNumbers on 04 Aug 2016, 05:18 ---Admittedly, a slinky filled with ball bearings is a really solid engineering practice for the kind of range of motion you'd expect from that portion of Bubble's armor.

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Personally, I can't get my head around the concept. To me a slinky is mostly transversal motion,
while ball bearings perform radial/circular motion.
How is that supposed to work or even look, what is it supposed to achieve? :?
At most I can imagine a slinky attached to two bearings, for the torso to bend over and sideways, perhaps,
"filled with" just plain confuses me.

Or is it stacked ball bearings we are talking about here? "Slinky" invokes some helical structure, and, ah!, I think I kind of get the idea as I write:
balls sliding along a helical band to allow for both helical and transversal motion, somehow?  I was thinking of multiple separate circular bearings, that
concept specificially didn't parse.

MrNumbers:
It'd look like some models of expensive squirmy dildo.

I'd link a picture, buuuuuut-

retrosteve:
I just went to vote in the 'odd couple' poll and I found "Faye and Bubbles" wasn't there!

I want to vote Faye and Bubbles. 

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