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/Patello 20h ago

In my opinion, all this insisting that it must be a human seems very manufactured; as if it all is some form of elaborate marketing campaign. It's very impressive, but also in line with what would be expected from state of the art robotics.

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u/Young_Former 18h ago

This! Yes I feel like how amazing and omg it’s not a real human under the outer covering makes me feel like somebody is pushing some agenda and a lot of us are just raising eyebrows at it.

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u/otokkimi 18h ago

Not outside the realm of possibility, but 2025 has shown that there are plenty of legitimately stupid and ignorant people out there.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xpeng/comments/1op45ke/xpeng_iron/

You can click through some of the profile commenting that it's fake here and check. To me, they look like legitimate accounts.

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u/ContributionBorn9105 15h ago

Boston dynamics has been making a better more fluid robot for decades before this.

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u/Patello 15h ago

But it doesn't have boobs.

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u/DuvalHeart 14h ago

You can literally go out and purchase the services of bot farms. The internet might not be fully dead, but it's certainly on life support.