[RaSoJo]

How can we trust this article or the company if the writer/so-called chief engineer decides to hide himself behind an AI avatar?

From what I can understand this is the Robbie Dickson in question: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lessons-from-a-serial-ent_b_9...

Nobody has a problem with companies using AI to edit articles, create images. But when even the writer is an AI persona, the trust factor gets destroyed.

[blueblisters]

You evaluate the merits of the content? From a high-level systems pov, the article is largely correct, even if some details might be missed / simplified

[mcphage]

How do you evaluate the merits of a graph of information? I usually read articles like this to learn something, not to grade someone else’s assignment.

[ModernMech]

Nobody is interested in correct information anymore. In 2026, trustworthy information is what people want.

[RaSoJo]

Yes. This distinction is important.

As a lay person, I have limited knowledge of this field, yet am extremely interested. Unfortunately AI gen content is being used widely to spread spurious information/fake news etc. So my knee jerk reaction to AI gen content is - "this is going to be fake".

If the information you are trying to convey is true, and is technical/objective in nature, then why shy away from associating your identify to it?

[olig15]

I think at very least, the diagrams are AI generated too.

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/strai... The middle component has teeth on the inside half way round, should be smooth on the inside.

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/inver... 4 of the 5 orbiting threaded rollers are perpendicular to the screw thread, so wont do anything.

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/ball-... Ball doesnt fit in the screw thread, just 'squashed' to make it fit?. Screw thread isnt consistent.

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/stiff... Classic 3 interlocked gears.

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/optic... Has the elastomer been ripped when the key was inserted?

> https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0554/0567/4694/files/biolo... Another gearbox that doesnt do anything...

The rest of the website seems filled with just as much slop too...

[Animats]

Right. I'd noticed that the first image, of the harmonic drive, was wrong. The flexible ring gear can't have a disc closely attached; that would kill the flexibility that makes the whole thing go. In some designs, the flexible ring gear is just a ring. The inside of the ring has to be smooth. The elliptical plug is way too small; it has to fit the ring gear.

Harmonic drives are confusing enough. It's amazing that they back-drive at all.

Anything wrong in the text? I'm out of date in this area, and I was reading this as a nice catch-up. What else did they get wrong?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=479Xay-Ulrs

[Mars008]

I wouldn't be surprised if article is actually AI generated summary from several sources.Guided by human.

It's a new phenomena. Recently got a book on agentic AI which looks like OpenAI docs with added generated water.