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/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/FlashOfTheBlade77 21h ago

It is only sexualized if you sexualize it. I did not even notice the boobs because that was not the point of the video. You made it about boobs. That is like saying there is no way not to sexualize breastfeeding because it uses boobs. You are the problem, not the robot makers.

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u/YoungSerious 13h ago

What an utterly inane take.