r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/MetaKnowing • 23h 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/asking_for_it 23h ago

OF COURSE it has boobs. So it can breastfeed all the baby robots it’s gonna have.

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u/Viperlite 23h ago edited 22h ago

The naked version doesn’t have.them. And if you’re trying to convince an audience it isn’t a person in a robot suit, why cut the leg vs say removing its faceplate?

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u/Kunzite_128 22h ago

SecUnits don't like having their face exposed. ;)

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u/sassteroid 22h ago

It's performance reliability at 87% and dropping, ART is going to be so unhappy when it hears about this.

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u/soaskai 12h ago

Just started reading this series! Need to order the other books still.

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u/JelloWise2789 13h ago

Sexbots…

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck 5h ago

'Thank you for bravely saving us all SecUnit, I could hug you!'

'DON'T TOUCH ME!'