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Does CloneRobotics Offer A True Android?

Work proceeds apace on the development of android bodies for use instead of mechanical robots.

The Clone’s muscular system animates the skeleton thanks to Clone’s revolutionary artificial muscle technology Myofiber pioneered by Clone in 2021, which actuates natural animal skeletons by attaching each musculotendon unit to the anatomically accurate points on the bones. Myofibers are produced in monolithic musculotendon units to eliminate tendon failures. In order to obtain the desirable qualities of mammalian skeletal muscle, a suitable synthetic muscle fiber should respond in less than 50 ms with a bigger than 30% unloaded contraction and at least a kilogram of contraction force for a single, three gram muscle fiber. Today, Myofiber is the only artificial muscle in the world capable of achieving such a combination of weight, power density, speed, force-to-weight, and energy efficiency.

The Clone’s skeletal system contains all 206 bones of the human body with a small number of bone fusions. The joints are fully articulated with artificial ligaments and connective tissues. With 1:1 ligament and tendon placement on the skeleton, the android is highly articular and includes one-to-many and many-to-one joint-muscle relationships. The four joints in the shoulder that connect the shoulder blade, collarbone, and upper arm bone have a total of 20 degrees of freedom, both rotational and translational, with an additional 6 degrees of freedom for each vertebra in the spine. With 26 degrees of freedom in the hand, wrist, and elbow, just the upper torso of the Clone without the legs possesses 164 degrees of freedom. These artificial human skeletons are made entirely of cheap and durable polymers.

The Clone’s nervous system was designed for instantaneous neural control of the valves, and thereby the muscles, with only proprioceptive and visual feedback. The Clone is equipped with 4 depth cameras in the skull for vision, 70 inertial sensors that provide joint-level proprioception (angles and velocities) and 320 pressure sensors for muscle-level force feedback. The control boards for the valves and sensor fusion feedback are mounted along the vertebrae with lightning fast microcontrollers sending and receiving information to and from the NVIDIA Jetson Thor inference GPU in the skull running Cybernet, Clone’s visuomotor foundation model.

The Clone’s vascular system is the most sophisticated hydraulic powering system ever designed, with a 500 watt electric pump as compact as the human heart able to pump liquid at a 40 SLPM volumetric flow rate and 100 psi rating, allowing it to supply hydraulic pressure to the entire muscular system. Clone’s Aquajet valve technology combines a 100 psi water pressure with a 2.28 SLPM flow rate, under a watt of power consumption, and a three-way configuration in a miniaturized 12mm design.

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I suppose I'm inclined to take these claims with a grain of salt. However, the idea of transferring my mind to a robot seems much more inviting if I'm not a mechanical person at the end of the process.

Here are several science-fictional examples.


("What Little Girls Are Made Of")

Here is the machine used in the 1968 Star Trek episode 'What Little Girls Are Made Of' to transfer the physical, mental and emotional characteristics of a person to an android 'blank.'


(The Ganger from Dr. Who)

Doctor Who series 6 episodes "The Rebel Flesh" and "The Almost People" features The Ganger, a clone of a human using artificial flesh that is often used as a vehicle to work in hazardous situations. But conflict ensues when the Gangers become self-aware and seek the same rights as the originals.

The earliest use of the term "androide" is from Cyclopaedia by Ephraim Chambers in 1727.

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