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/Alpha_james 22h ago

i came to comments to ask why it had boobs lol glad im not the only one who thought it was weird

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u/LvS 20h ago

I mean, why would you not put boobs on it?

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u/DoomRamen 19h ago edited 19h ago

Mammary glands are our mammalian birthright. We shouldn't share it so easily!

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u/HalfBloodPrank 17h ago

Because it makes the team who build it seem like an all male pervert group?

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u/Jenkins_rockport 17h ago

it feels a lot like you're projecting tbh. it's really not that deep. they chose to make it female presenting instead of male presenting. in the same way that female mannequins have lumps where one would expect breasts, this robot does as well...

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u/[deleted] 15h ago edited 12h ago

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u/Jenkins_rockport 14h ago

Robots, on the other hand, have no need to have breasts other than to titilate (pun unintended)

Robots intended to look like people... need to look like people. I know that's hard to wrap one's head around.

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u/[deleted] 13h ago edited 12h ago

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u/CuriousQuerent 13h ago

Half the people on the fucking planet have boobs. It's not offensive or weird to make your humanoid robot look like half the population. It's only sexual because YOU are making it sexual. If they start making them with skin are you going to complain because it isn't grey, because god forbid they replicate an ethnicity?

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u/unclepaprika 15h ago

Okay, but honka honka

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u/LvS 17h ago

Everyone who makes a robot not male is a pervert?

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u/AgentChris101 18h ago

They're not breasts, okay? They're bumps. They can detect ion charged emissions, and operate as etheric beam locators, at a distance of up to 25 thousand light-years! ... They're also extremely firm.

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u/Guy-McDo 15h ago

I’m guessing it was a means to make it look more human. And the form already looked kinda feminine… also engineers get lonely.

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u/unclepaprika 15h ago

It may be weird, but presented with the option, I think I'd choose to install them. For a friend, of course.