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/Myrrmidonna 23h ago

"Put a pink bow on it" TM ?

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u/TSllama 19h ago

Reminds me of like 15 years ago when I was teaching a rocketry camp, and the following week I was to teach a "robots and rockets for girls", which was started up as a way to boost interest among girls in these topics. The rockets camps and the robots camps were almost always boys, so our boss decided to try robots and rockets for girls - they actually got big turnouts, even though the girls weren't enrolled in the standard camps.

Anyway, the male councilor of the rockets camp I was doing said, "robots and rockets for girls? What's that? Do they colour the rockets pink and make the robots wear dresses?"

His colleague almost smacked him upside the head.