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Watch: Chinese company's new humanoid robot moves so smoothly, they had to cut it open to prove a person wasn't hiding inside (www.livescience.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I understand the need to wrap the mechanism to help keep it clean, but why no zippers or Velcro or something? From the perspective of a technician, cover panels should be easily removable for access, especially on a prototype. Cutting off the covering onstage seems... dramatic.

Also, um... why does it have boobs?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Well this isn't a prototype, it's a tech demo.

    Not only does it have a full outer covering, it also has a thick underweave layer that makes it more fleshy. It has a surprising amount of corners and pinchy bits underneath - honestly sealing it completely is probably also to protect nearby humans

    As for the boobs... Well, I kinda figured humanity would wait until we had a generation of useful robots before giving them boobs, but we were always going to end up here...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Also, um… why does it have boobs?

    because we can! The real question is: Why only ONE pair !!! I mean, it could be a huge boob that walked around on smaller boobs ! ..or boob hands with long sausage boobs (grandpa tits?) as fingers. Someone fucked up here !

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