about robot hands and human bones
Everybody has seen the picture, right? ↑ It's by AstroMonster312 from twitter btw
First I thought: "Why in the world does Sun have such hands..? Giant thumb and pinky, elongated bottom phalanges?". I thought it was an odd design decision.
Yesterday I wanted to draw DCA with a certain hand pose, made the pose with my own hand and went: "wait a minute... human hands are squishy"
excellent job, Sherlock
Plenty things that we can do are tied to our thumbs that change their positions under the skin and are parts of our palms, all while the attendant has metal and plastic nonflexible palms.
Was he given biblically accurate human hand proportions, his fine motor skills wouldn't be so, ehm... fine.
He wouldn't be able to connect his thumb and pinky, barely would be able to connect ring finger and thumb.
Thumb movements in general would be very restricted and you know how much of a loss that would be.
Our hand looks like this:
well, approximately
to keep fine motor skills (which are crucial for for someone who's assigned to daycare) designers did this:
what exactly did they do?
- Well, imagine your thumb was cut off (bottom segment that is a part of your palm included) and placed where it originally started (aka the second segment joint)
What does it give? It saves the opposed finger function (still think they could place some hinges inside his palm and it would work beautifully) as now the thumb has wider range of rotation
- Made the pinky longer
Probably as a part of solving the inability to connect thumb with pinky problem. Or maybe they decided that short fingers are useless. Or accidentally made another ring fingers instead of pinkies and just installed them (I don't understand if they're the same length or pinkie is slightly shorter)
- Made the top segments longer than ours (comparing by proportions. And for further when I say "bigger/shorter than humans' I mean the proportion). DCA's top segments are bigger than middle ones
For, uhm, reasons..?
Overall this makes an odd compromise between trying to keep the design human accurate and failing and making decisions that would just serve their function
More thoughts under the cut because the post is getting inexcusably long (and also a version of DCA hand but it's just broken human hand skeleton with a floating thumb, for it looks so dumb that it's even a bit funny)
ruined daycare attendant hand
