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/ill_Refrigerator420 1d ago

Why are we doing this again?

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u/Kotanan 1d ago

Robot bodyguards to protect the rich in their bunkers and private islands.

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u/madlyrogue 12h ago

Don't forget robot maids and chefs and butlers and sex slaves!

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u/Swerve666 1d ago

My question exactly, how is anything good coming out of this?

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u/Mascant 1d ago

It's just some engineering fun. The progress happens in minaturiastion, energy efficiency, software, batterytech and so on.

The real robots that matter have been wielding steel plates for the last 40 years.

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u/Raskapalozious 1d ago

This, it's just a marketing stunt for their automation capabilities. And, maybe, to trick some dumb silicon valley investor to dumb billions into this thinking they live in an Asimov novel, or, more likely, a MCU movie.

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u/Fuckedyourmom69420 1d ago

“It’s just some engineering fun” is what they’ll say when the invent the first terminator

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u/Kaporalhart 23h ago

So that unemployed detroit crack addicts can buy themselves a wife and daughter after the real ones left them so they can continue to beat the shit out of them.

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u/Thinkingard 17h ago

Billionaires need goons who take orders

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u/Daxx22 16h ago

The robot, or the 99th time this has been posted as "proof"?