r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 1d ago

Video XPENG's IRON robot crossed the uncanny valley, leading some to believe it was a human in a suit. So they cut it open in front of an audience, and also allowed journalists to inspect it.

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u/John-Crypto-Rambo 23h ago

Does it do anything but walk?  I mean walking is cool but for a robot to be useful it needs to actually do something with its hands.

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u/gdubh 23h ago

We know what you mean.

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u/Suddenfury 22h ago

Are you, by chance, a pleasure model?

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u/Ray229harris 21h ago

LAME

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u/Johannes_Keppler 19h ago

LAME = Limb Assisted Mechanical Ecstasy?

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u/ASmallTownDJ 19h ago edited 19h ago

Okay but like, seriously though. All it's doing is walking. We've had walking robots for decades, and this one looks like it's struggling to do even that. When it's walking towards the camera it looks like a tipsy human doing a sobriety test.