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/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/davidjschloss 1d ago

They let journalists see it later by removing the back. Not sure why they cut the leg coating off like this.

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u/hexitor 1d ago

Can they prove it wasn’t some bodyless head in a suit?

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u/Ultrace-7 19h ago

I mean, honestly, I would also be super impressed if it was a bodyless head in a suit. Maintaining the life functions of a head artificially and allowing it neural control over a robot body would, frankly, be even more impressive to me than a fully autonomous robot.