How could it go straight up and down? As the robot moves around the room, the anchor for the vertical cable would no longer be directly above the robot.
I assumed the 5th cable would be directly connected to the robot, to lower and raise it straight up and down. So, cables from four corners of the room to the center point where the 5th cable is, and the robot hangs off that 5th cable and can raise/lower itself.
>I had someone write me a personal message about a sensitive topic that was clearly workshopped with AI in an effort to nuance the conversation and not offend me. But the message became impersonal, dispassionate, and disjointed. It had all of the parts, but it didn’t make sense as a whole. I wasn’t interested in reading it, or responding. I would much rather someone be themselves and write with their own voice, or with some passion, even if they can’t quite find the words, or risk offending me.
Only a privileged person can say this. Not everybody is a native speaker or good communicator. As an IT guy somewhere on the spectrum, I have damaged my career on multiple occasions by clumsy writing.
Tangential: We need to invent some kind of personal wireless setting that will signal to strangers that you are open to meeting new people or starting a conversation.
Otherwise, all this technology will totally isolate us.
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