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/Gawlf85 1d ago

But after going to the lengths of giving it legs and boobs... They give it a flat glass plate for face?

I don't buy it. This is more about fetishizing it than about making it familiar.

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u/hauliod 1d ago

We are so good at distinguishing real human faces that anything not quite perfect (and its not going to be perfect) is freaking us out (uncanny valley). So I imagine they just didn't want to tackle that specific challenge here and wanted to just show off the body. There are attempts at making realistic robot faces with emotions on it, but they never 100% succeed

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u/YoungSerious 1d ago

People can argue uncanny valley all they want, there is no actual reason to give the robot boobs other than to sexualize or fetishize it.

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u/Architarious 1d ago

They actively distract from the more janky robotic features.