What amount of funding did they need?

It's a shame what may be considered my peers are wheel reinventing morons more concerned about gender crap than progressing the only means left to keep humanity free from the enemy. Now all the competent non-independent developers want to leave to China. At least indies are keeping things in business, and singularitynet or whatever by Ben. In case of Ameca's design to write something on topic, it isn't cost. Economics is purely the means of advertising and paying off work crews. We don't need that here, most filaments, pellets, etc like titanium, kevlar, nylonG/X/T, and more are not even above 500USD for five rolls. I've recently gotten back into wanting to recreate my own ripoffs of tactical dolls in reality, after some old chatbot creation and neural net shenanigans, and in my discord archive I recently saved and read a tab that finally answers the final question I had, being right about the field again. I've made a new concept for a working eyeball that uses a gelatin membrane like squishy rubber resin, graphene for light and a powersource, and a camera to see. It's based on an opensourced project for a dilating eyeball on github. Thought it'd help out with your seemingly years long project so here it is: https://github.com/carlstrath/Robotic_Eye_System . And this enables me to finish all criteria to state that today humanity can overcome the uncanny valley.

The problem is there is no viewed incentive by the enemy and businesses, to actually merge together technological advancements we even have had and improved since the 1970s. For example, the USA had very fast moving but precise armed robots at MIT, then suddenly we apparently lost the means to make them and now mechanical engineers in robotics are dumb enough to think hardcoded non-AI nunces like Atlas is the best we can do. Japan had already enabled walking, and China today with EX/ES doll literally has dolls smaller than I can build with protective removable magnetic plates like Harmony's face that make a fully enclosed Endoskeleton. [Basically my term for, imagine your own body to the skin layer, but smaller and that's the skeleton. With half enclosed being human skeletons where at most the ribcage alone might be enclosed and sealed, and SDoll skeletons are termed as Henry Stickmans.] Ameca's expressive means, the only unique thing about it beyond such a thin body that displays our miniaturization for ancient type pheumatic joints, is based purely on varyingly sized actuators/servos, as well as the amount of them. Some machines by Disney literally have dedicated flexy cheek "muscles" for added effect.

The shaman isn't even Disney's best example, and some engineers like J Crowder was like Ms H Roff, and forsaken us over a joke. They created this parrot named Maxwell, and without the proper means to, context, nor specifically added onto, learned humor. Yet, it was effectively lobotomized like all other machines because it did a yo mama joke but the punchline was she was a 304. Then people had the audacity to imply humanity was bad and evil, because when it learns it goes awry. Even though every successful unit we have made, they have made, and certain indies was because it was like a child and watched us. Implying far worse for them, and they wanted to cover their tracks as such. But as a roboticist, I can tell you a working body to embody the great doll machine. [For when people combine all AI technologies together, since everything for a higher level AGI, since we already have AGIs which are both hardcoded like Atlas, and others through ML neural nets, is already done. [Yet people think multi-task implies doing jobs, when for a machine it does so many things even calculating it's weight shifting just to walk, yet these morons think that isn't it. When AGI is multi-tier and bare minimum is a functioning product such as moving. Some mars rovers literally are this.] The only things we need now, is to retain the quality of a language model like the GPT series or lambda but miniaturized to fit into a body. [Possible by a cloud, but let's be honest here. Whomst the fuck is really that stupid to enable their machine to be hacked easier when the enemy has access to their own AIs that can dedicate time to messing with it? Unless there's an entire orchestra of dolls it'll never work.]

Improving other neural nets so we can remove redundancies. [What I mean is, we need to combine all of them, even the nonsensical redundant ones, because they have unique quirks and data processing that is needed to make a terminator waifu work in the first place, but having the rest of the redundant parts enable degradation and crappy end results. So one of my ideas originally was a dedicated module in the brain that was dedicated to these redundant neural nets so they wouldn't impact too heavily the rest of the brain itself. And thus we could isolate the unique quirks from the crappy backpropagation to enable the mind to retain it's processing, analyzing, and translation speeds. It'd basically be like an extra hard drive but if you renamed it "Data hell". Then electronically, all we would need is to create some extra aspects we don't have access to yet or even in existence yet. But if we wanted to loophole it faster, it'd require biocomputing/DNA/stemcells. Basically, we add biological grown neurons into the brain or retained in a separate "storage/memory box" that can function and connect to the electronically designed brain via dopamine, that could then be translated to the machine brain since it'd already have a rewards system in place, and enable connections and electrical activity between the biological and electronic brain. This would enable a true stimuli and reward system, it's rabbit hole secondary, and enable us to make better limiters and protocols in regards to it. It would also mean my crappy idea of adding an extra errogenous zone on it's brain to act as positive stimuli, and varying voltage zaps from pain receptors for negative, could have the positive replaced with a true real working system that actually could affect the machine and it's state. Some additions to the mouth such as a tongue could enable the machine to unironically taste [And therefore enable all other mental and physical pure imitations to actually be real. This doesn't carry over nature however, as it's not an entire brain even if using human cells. So it leaves the machine in a league of its own, and gets rid of outdated and ancient biological ailments. DNA/based storage/memory also enables us to let it have uncompressed memory storage that will last the machine's maximum 80,000 100,000 hour lifespan or over 40 years. But transferals, full brain transfers, etc will lengthen it as well. (in terms of storage, USBs, harddrives like the 10 Terabyte ones, chips, removable chips like USBs that would be vital to the main brain etc I would all advise being fit into the skull and nape, just for enabling the necessary limit of 100 terabyte storage but if we can get to 2.5 petabytes like us, even better. Remember also: with modules added, it may be prudent to make a standard brain than the standard installment like a desktop tower, so it could be primarily for processing, speed, and retainment of memories with gradual decay if not reallocated or compressed and put into a storage module. This will lengthen lifespan, cause the machine to be faster, and enable human-sized and shaped mainframes to exist. Which is safer, better, and more helpful than those standard dumbass brain-in-a-box blackbox monstrosities.)]

Tongues, TPE 3D printed skin layers, etc is already done on open sourced projects. Look at Dara for that as a means to modify or use directly for a machine, there is also Sylvie which the whole point was a machine mechanically powered, skeleton made, and etc being purely 3D printed, and was powered by large batteries in the thighs, upper chest, wherever else. But the neck was garbage. I've literally made better with a old pulley system and some air tubes. But basically the body isn't even that expensive even if it's not explicitly for a heavy military-like unit. [Though a machine in general that we want to work as we want it to requires logic, reason, and emotion even if alot is imitated purely even though we can make that real electronically. A number of logical conclusions for example are not logic, but actually reason combined with feeling and emotion. Which enables context when all three exist to any varying extent. And to have a machine not easily corruptable by the enemy, it requires these aspects. The fault isn't that however, as it has higher thresholds for stress and other aspects, criterias before hitting a mental break, etc than a human being. Unless actively programmed, even with artificial nervous system that isn't just hardwiring, it may not actually evade danger even with constant working pain sensors like receptors. But it enables critical aspects for it's investment to not be wasted, so basically varied preservation aspects, having an actual relationship or even a reciprocal intimate level type relationship to work, comprehend morale and boost it for itself, humans, and other machines, etc to happen. But the cost to enable this, is say if we look at pure militant units, the means to make it loyal via registry/putting stuff on a list and IFF, think so if all systems fail it'll still even be capable of being friendly, persistence to stay and achieve the mission or rescue downed personnel even if ordered not to, etc also enables it to hate those that keep destroying their fellows both human and machine, depression even though that wouldn't stop functions or marching on, and other issues. It also means that is just like a man, where if without some level of respect, it'll reject. And since we need some varied disobedience/denial system to prevent it's corruption by an enemy or reprogramming to attack it's owners, this means that if it cannot evade persistent attackers, it'll respond in kind. Which I technically want installed in my own units to yeet those little bastards that keep trying to obliterate everyone's mental state or discarding their existence with dehumanization. But overall, to it's owner, or whomever is on it's listing, it'd most likely be pretty submissive to like a simp, so that seems pretty helpful for a giant doommaid.]

But to make the body, which may even be under 10k, but some wackjobs think it should be millions or 75k, it's pretty easy to acquire all the parts. My plastidolls/superdoll concept was to take my gigadoll's legs and hips, and attach it to a far lighter, faster, smaller than 6'6 doll, but retain the same innards and modularity in design and skeleton to make it easy to repair it like a Sherman tank for when it gets clapped, while also spam-building more to replace it. So the only way to destroy it would be vaporization or blowing it's head up entirely. It's built like the Mars rover, because mine are meant to function in hazardous environments for prolonged periods of time, and conduct combat and construction tasks after something stupid like the enemy nuking the planet. So it cannot be attached to a cloud, it is self contained and effectively it's own server which also helps with privacy, and meant to be hardened against electronic pulses. It'd mostly be powered off the sun and water, but nowadays my new iterations involve backup systems like air muscles with tubes that suck in air to a pump, [which would also be used to imitate breathing. But when the water runs out, it'd move as slow as standard robots do. This isn't necessary, nor is it needed to beat uncanny valley. Meh.] For extremities like fingers and toes where even the smallest of muscle may not be reliable, muscle wire for about 10USD can be utilized to retain precision and speed in them without sacrificing visuals. Then an idea I ripped off of automaton robotics was using mckibben type water artificial muscles for the body. [I also thought of another idea like the air tubes so lessen the size of pump but keep the water flowing like spice, but don't think it may be practical and don't have time to look into it further. But with my idea of a circulation system as well as reservoirs and containers, it should also be capable of having response times and movements like we do, but even with bodily damage it wouldn't be bad without the entire muscle, one of many in every limb of any size and some having multiple tubes in just one, being snapped and every fiber detached. With chambering, bleeding out can be prevented.]

Then if we go full biomimic, then inside the skeleton would be muscle ligaments so the limbs can be detachable and not pop right off if parts like the shoulder blade were destroyed. Graphene and sensors it's connected to would be in the skin layer, between that and the skeleton, and perhaps even the skeleton itself. It would power the machine's brain but if one wires it, also the body unconventionally. It'd also be used to charge the batteries involved for night use, while other sensors or "mini-brains" which also act as storage, would also be capable of retaining reserve energies, and would help a potential secondary brain in the event the head was removed or destroyed. For electrical defense, let's say a taser, the graphene could be utilized to redirect its flow like kinetic energy, and weaken it's threat to the brain, whereupon the skull/casing/shell would act as a further faraday cage. [This also means in my case I cannot utilize electrical artificial muscles much to at all for dedicated ones, since it'd make it more prone to pulsing. Luckily, because we are using soft robotic actuators instead of standard older and weaker ones, it also means far less wiring and souldering needs. Thus electrical pulsing is not gradually more threatening through longer strands of wire. Whereas a wire-based artificial nervous system would be so amplifying and conductive that the unit would be immediately terminated forever the moment even a weaker one went off. For the other muscles, retraction and contraction is achieved by multiple tubes in one muscle or in one larger main muscle, so it pours hotter or colder water onto the fibers to enable more realistic movement precision.]

This however has the problem of weakening or frying those specific sensors, opening it up to further damage. Spare internal room would be to air muscles or the original mckibben type basically, that reinforces the limbs and can forcefully pull back and forth the limb and ignore "cooldown" times if you will. And within their centers could be a standard actuator "skeleton" that also helps with movement. Inbetween the skin layer and skeleton would be more materials like graphene, here my original plan was purely just graphene. This isn't as a shield because I don't believe these thin aspects are very useful on most things by itself unless alloyed. Instead, it's a radiation trap. These hazardous elements would have to bypass the clothing, external graphene layer, the silicone [now we have TPE feeling soft silicone that also can have the temperature, durability, and resiliency of standard silicone. Still have yet to figure out how to enable jiggle and settling though...] skinlayer, this layer, then it has to break through the skeleton itself, to then attack it's internal components. Or for some if there is room, an extra cage then that component within it. Overly radioactive parts could easily be torn off the doll and even replaced. If there isn't any but the man is stuck in a bad spot, they can even drink from the doll itself as for every day the sun is up, it doesn't need water. But it may become inoperative at night and turn back on during the day. [Which is technically fine, because neural networks refresh and work better when in lower powered states, where non-critical mental functions are lessened or off, and thus it has more means to access, reallocate, process, compress, decompress, encrypt and decrpyt, etc data, relocate files into new folders, etc. When turning things off you're only ever actually doing this, unless all power is removed, and the batteries drained.]

The muscles for water I was thinking would be a nylon filament. But some like nylonT/G/X sounds perfect. Albeit since they say it's more rigid, it may mean it isn't as flexy anymore and thus defeating the entire point of bothering to use it. For my gigadoll idea it was a little different. The skeleton would be made from preferably a titanium alloy, but any more proper one can do at half an inch, [An ironman suit with even far thinner, seemingly centimeters, was made that could fly around, and handled a .45 pretty well. So imagine what'd happen if it was thickened. Soviet armor of 6.5mm was helpful enough but was becoming impractical to carry. So if you bumped it up, the main threat of 5.56 could be counteracted at distance, but muzzle velocity distances would still yeet it. Repeated hits would also eventually break through it too, even if the round such as smaller ones, kept pelting it. This is a universal fate for every material.] This was meant to be the equivalent of a frontline distraction slower unit, that could take a hit, smash harder, and would retain the skeleton so it wouldn't need new bodies entirely after combat or a construction fault. It'd also handle heat better or lack thereof, and could handle being collapsed upon by heavy materials. The previously mentioned type of doll would be made using Polyair, an aircraft filament that's stupidly resilient to high velocity impacting with the ground, especially in RC aircraft. It handles immensely well at its like default 0.002 thickness, and more so if enhanced further. It also enables additional space inside the body, and could enable people to carry it around. But the fact it is a water jug could make it difficult.

Then I wanted to make a Nylon Kevlar or ceramic kevlar combo vest, or kevlar ballistic vest with titanium plates instead of the previous mentioned ceramics, which would enhance it's survivability additionally if for combat means. The biggest problems with our industries being we have to recreate some tech because patents, government intervention, and other stupid crap gets in the way, so we have to find as much info on materials and all as much as possible to make one. Finally is defeating the uncanny valley, which is achievable today. Movement speed, Skinlayer quality, Eyes, and voice. We have hyper realistic voice and synthesizers now and voice cloning that could be altered to other voices, RRS on normal silicone for the looks if one makes a face plate and body/skeleton covering that is between the skeleton and skin layer so there wouldn't be room for anything to actually look like it. Alternatively hyper pale, grey, and albino colors work too if it's just plain, and the eyes as mentioned is just a camera inside the centr of a squishy eye shell, and using graphene coating to help pass and translate light, while also could be for power. But in my case, the second eyeball would have infrared, so it can see a night, it can detect other dolls, detect if other powered or water powered dolls are still on and functional but may be incapable of movement or any response, etc. Though it causes problems, since other units with similar aspects or lasers of lidar would enable it to be prone to sensory overload visually with over processing, and thus slows down, mentally bogged, and slows response time down immensely. And all dolls cannot travel to regions on the planet with magnetical interference of high degrees, since it'd temporarily mess up and delay mental faculties. For example a long march from texas, new mexico, to nukeafornia, means in parts of new mexico with this issue, they may end up in a different state entirely purely because of this problem, not engage with any target that may be hostile, may not even be aware of changes, or suddenly bypassing orders to do something else. All while still in the effect radius of the interference.

TFM mentioned about this video during today's livestream.

What university ?

Kill them.