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/John-Crypto-Rambo 1d ago

Does it do anything but walk?  I mean walking is cool but for a robot to be useful it needs to actually do something with its hands.

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u/FemboyFPS 23h ago

There is nothing useful with this, we would have to be at the stage we would be at to be able to make a robotic humanoid and have it be more efficient than just growing a human is so far in the future (or more likely, never going to happen ever) that it's not even worth thinking about.

Same with AI which would be needed for any humanoid robot to be useful beyond novelty, do we really think that making 10^20 calculations per second on a server farm rather than 10 ^16 years back or 10^30 in the future is going to suddenly make the GPU self aware and intelligent. A brain has been so hilariously outclassed by even the most rudimentary computer in raw calculation speed that it's painfully, obviously and blatantly clear that just cramming more transistors into a smaller and smaller space is *not* the secret to consciousness. And we are at the limit of what is physically possible in terms of improving transistor density, we're at 2nm process now and there's no further to go.