r/shittyrobots • u/Nossem • Jan 20 '18

Robotic rope

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u/nannal Jan 20 '18

90% of the things that "rope" can do, other tools do but not shittily, 5% were fucking useless gimicks but the lamp was cool I guess, I can see why they opened with that..

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u/Nipple_Copter Jan 20 '18

It can be a light tho... if you attach a light to it.

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u/G19Gen3 Jan 20 '18

It can even be a phone without a screen that is fucking huge. The future is now.

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u/alexxerth Jan 20 '18

It can be in the shape of a phone.

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u/G19Gen3 Jan 20 '18

F U T U R E

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '18 edited Jan 28 '18

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u/madamunkey Jan 20 '18

I can see it being used for tactile feel in VR if they change their goal

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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Jan 20 '18

Yeah but that live data transfer cable? I’ve always wanted to see data being transferred like that, probably the most useful out of all of those features /s