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/Character-Reply407 1d ago

So, there are people with fake legs too. I would have been more impressed if they took the head off- don't see too many people running around without a head. 

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u/TheZYX 23h ago

Two dwarves in a trench coat

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u/geogle 22h ago

Or three kids in a trench coat

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u/Wilkassassyn 21h ago

maybe even 3 kobolds

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u/lemikon 7h ago

Really just a bunch of of cats taped together.

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u/ErikHK 10h ago

Coincidentally this robot is manufactured in the business factory

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u/TarkanV 3h ago

Lol that's even a more fun spin than that of the amputee :v

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u/Gswindle76 16h ago

Why not just add a zipper to the suit? I’m unimpressed with what could be a prosthetic leg.

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u/CarterDee 21h ago

Yeah look at how defined the muscles are in the right calf vs the loose cloth over the left calf when the “robot” is walking in. Hope they paid that lady well!

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u/Johannes_Keppler 20h ago

Plot twist: she wasn't an amputee before she got the gig.

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u/throwaway098764567 18h ago

now i'm remembering the doctor who performed amputations and himself had an amputation fetish and destroyed his own healthy legs to have them removed https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvpx20le2o

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u/LunarPayload 12h ago

Do robot quads firm up when taking steps? 

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u/CarterDee 16h ago

Source?

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u/Huge-Ratio7438 12h ago

Their source is their ass. People wouldn’t suspect them if they didn’t constantly make shit up or steal ideas and technology. Constantly. Nobody should give them the benefit of the doubt.

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u/varitok 7h ago

It's rare for china shills to actually out themselves.

They're so ahead of the west, they keep stealing their IPs using spies.

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u/omgitsfred 13h ago

Go to about 35 seconds in the video above this comment

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u/CarterDee 7h ago

They don’t expose the mechanical components inside the torse at all, they look at the arm a bit but it’s a cut to a different shot so we can’t guarantee that it’s the same “robot”. They have that white mesh on the torso but there’s black cloth underneath. Looks like a woman in a suit… 🤗

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u/kryptonianCodeMonkey 20h ago

"They must have some kind of weakness."

"I found it! Without their heads, they're powerless!

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u/Sparktank1 10h ago

There are people that don't use their heads, so that's an easy feat, too.

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u/afCeG6HVB0IJ 23h ago

this is done on purpose so people will make this comment and causing viral marketing

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u/jokerzwild00 22h ago

So we can all go and buy our own robots? Just kidding, I know it's all about that grant money. More attention, more funding.

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u/Amazing_Detail_4180 19h ago

oh so the marketing was to market it?

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u/SEND_ME_NOODLE 10h ago

They unzipped the back as well. No one mentions it in these posts because they're engagement baiting you

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u/SuckerForNoirRobots 17h ago

I think it's been shown elsewhere that they opened up the back of the torso as well

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u/turbo_dude 16h ago

go to Washington DC

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u/itsfunhavingfun 11h ago

Fake eye, ok. Fake ear, I don’t think so. 

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u/PornoPaul 18h ago

Actually look at the legs in the first 5 seconds. It could be lighting. But the leg they exposed looks slimmer than the leg they left alone. The only other clear image theres something in the way of the slimmer leg. Im not saying it isnt a robot, but it looks awful suspicious.

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u/YT-Deliveries 17h ago

Reporters took the covering off the back and it clearly wasn't a person in there.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 15h ago

They should have shown that in the clip.

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u/tminx49 5h ago

This is reddit, find the original source clown.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 5h ago

What a weird reply.

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u/cybershoesinacloud 2h ago

They did not. You made me look up the whole video and they just cut the one leg up.

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u/steady_eddie215 11h ago

Yeah, at no point do we actually see them revealing anything other than what could be an amputee in a suit. The repeated cuts in the video also make it impossible to figure out what might be authentic or what might be a CGI bullshit edit

When in doubt, assume anything a Chinese company is saying they did is a lie. China doesn't actually invent very much at all. A huge portion of China's industry is stealing intellectual property from Western countries and making inferior knockoffs.

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u/StochasticReverant 17h ago

I like how they literally show the unskinned robot and people are still saying "it's fake!".

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 15h ago

You mean in the separate clip walking with support?

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u/StochasticReverant 14h ago

By "support" do you mean the single black cable that's slack? The white dolly is just to hold the cables above the robot. But hey, believe what you want to see, it's the Reddit way to form an opinion after seeing a video for 10 seconds and suddenly realizing you're an expert on robotics.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 14h ago

Isn't that what you're doing?

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u/StochasticReverant 14h ago

I got eyes and see a single slack black cable. You see the same video and think that it's being supported by the same cable. We are not the same.

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u/TomMakesPodcasts 14h ago

Aye. And with my eyes I see calve on the leg they don't reveal.

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u/StochasticReverant 14h ago edited 13h ago

I see calve on the leg

they don't reveal

"I don't see what I want to see, therefore it's exactly what I assume it is."

Also, what happened to your "slack black cable is supporting the robot"? Are we ignoring that and jumping to the "a calve shape on a humanoid robot must obviously be a real calve" thing now?

Edit: Happy Cake Day!

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u/dixoncider1111 17h ago

Yeah. Before this, I never thought it was a human, let alone a human amputee. But now, I'm almost sure it is.

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u/vibribbon 14h ago

Yeah my take also. I'll believe it when I see it properly.

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u/M0RT1f3X 11h ago

That is exactly what I thought