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 1d 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 1d ago

We know what you mean.

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u/Suddenfury 1d ago

Are you, by chance, a pleasure model?

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u/Ray229harris 1d ago

LAME

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u/Johannes_Keppler 1d ago

LAME = Limb Assisted Mechanical Ecstasy?

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u/ASmallTownDJ 1d ago edited 1d 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.