Where are all the tentacle robots /sci/? After decades of soft robotics, there's not a single autonomous soft tentacle robot on the market. What are soft roboticists even doing?
>>16800907
Well? Where are they?
>>16800907>What are soft roboticists even doing?They're busy with other endeavors right now.
They just couldn't get it up.
>>16800907Tentacles as cool as they are for porn are not a practical way of manipulating objects which is the actual goal of robotics. There's simply just no use case for an extremely complex and expensive tentacle when a 6 axis robot arm costs a fraction and has hundred times the strength and precision. There are some advantages to the way tentacles are by definition "soft" which could help in for instance care work but the same advantage can more cheaply be applied to a traditional robot arm using software or other modifications.
>>16801070there is stuff like this and a bit more sophisticated, not going to search for you though, search yt
>>16801075My friend wants to buy this, where should he look to get one? And does a male genital fits inside?
>>16801515https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLE5yhS3k3IIt's just a prototype for a um.. a way to p-pick grapes without damaging them,.
Endoscopes have been around for years and are widely used. They're not autonomous but if you've ever seen one manipulated by a skilled practioner it's like a creep fluid-motion tentacle.Thinking about it I'm surprised I haven't seen any used in porn.
>>16801558...grapes... my friend... he's a grape farmer!I bet it would feel great when you put some grapes in there...But to be serious, they could make lots of money when they put this technology in fleshlights and sexrobots.
>>16801489>Tentacles as cool as they are for porn are not a practical way of manipulating objects which is the actual goal of robotics.What about for people who want robotic tentacles to jerk them off? Penetration, cosplay etc...
>>16800907Because soft roboticists want to make robots rather than solve the hard problem of actuators. 90% of soft robots use pneumatic actuators because that's pretty much the only soft actuator we have. They don't want to work on artificial muscles because they're 'too hard.' Also, pneumatics can't penetrate you, because if they leak, you die.
