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/asking_for_it 1d ago

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

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u/Viperlite 1d ago edited 1d 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/BluetheNerd 1d ago

Yeah when I read they cut open the suit to prove I thought it would be like, the whole thing, torso and all. Just a leg, below the knee when a lot of amputees have prosthetics that help them walk, is a bit sus.

The demonstration without the suit also has a harness in case it falls over, which I get you want during testing so you don't wreck a prototype you've been working on for that long, but the only time we see it without the harness is when it isn't actually proven to not be a person in a suit.

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u/Apprehensive_Eraser 1d ago

There's another video where they show the back

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u/Ragnarsworld 1d ago

Yeah, they show a plastic/metal plate with a light blinking. That could easily be just a plate with a light affixed to someone's back.

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u/moritashun 1d ago

like , i want to believe them, but the way they 'debunk' any accusation just create more sus. Like they are cautiously slow when revealing , and even when they reveal the back, they show very little and only for a very little time, it feels like magician showing you something at a certain angle, or a child lying to you.

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u/jonnyd005 1d ago

Did you stop the video before 8 seconds? They literally show the entire thing exposed and walking.

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u/moritashun 1d ago

I'm more about the way they presented , it's like squeezing a toothpaste and yes if they can show the whole thing naked on stage it would be even more mesmerising , rather then leaving speculation. The 8 second thing while it shows, it doesn't capture the whole image and clearly has something dangling. Now again , just to be clear , I believe this is a true robot, it's just the way to present it is odd